The Snow Leopard Av Peter Matthiessen

<p><b>Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas.</b><br><br> This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a ''journey of the heart'' - amongst the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace. He was also searching for a glimpse of a snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be almost mythical. <br><br><b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD MABEY</b><br><br><b>''A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among'' Paul Theroux</b><br><br><br><b>''A delight'' i Paper</b></p>