The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen went in search of the elusive and beautiful snow Leopard and returned with one of the most celebrasted accounts in our time of the bonds between man and nature. He went with the field biologist Georg Schaller from Kathmandu to the remote Crystal Mountain, highj in the Himalayas by the way of Annapura. But for Peter Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, what began as an expedition became a true pilgrimage of the heart, a p[rofoundly moving exploration of the spirit. The patient work of an inspired naturalist and a spiritual journey beyond the reach of the twentieth century combine to make The Snow Leopard a book of exceptional riches.