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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Classics)
by Peter Matthiessen
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A Bit TOO Mindful of the Moment
  I think that I admired "The Snow Leopard" more than I actually enjoyed it.
  After the death of his wife, the author, Peter Matthiessen, joined a naturalist trek in Nepal to investigate the mating habits of blue sheep. His diary became the basis of "The Snow Leopard," which won a National Book Award. There's no question that it deserved the award. The autobiographical parts are moving; the descriptions of landscape and animals are meticulous and sometimes lyrical; even the Zen material, though tainted by... more info

• One of the classics of travelogue literature: The Snow Leopard
  Thoreaux: Where in all the world is the literature that gives expression to Nature?
  Here it is, in Peter Matthiessens's National Book Award Winning "The Snow Leopard". Peter Matthiessen is now a living legend, a prophet of ecological thought and a long time American Buddhist, but in 1973, when the book was conceived he still wasn't so famous. At the age of 46 he decided to trek through the Inner Dolpo region of Nepal with his friend and co-explorer G. Schaller (well known for his studies on the... more info

• Interesting and Compelling Book
  The Snow Leopard is slow paced and there is little plot. The book is about a long hike and the author's coming or not coming to terms with his divorce from and the death of his ex-wife. That is really it, but the Snow Leopard took me to a new and better place, one that I can not easily explain. This is one of the best books I have ever read.
  

• Boring
  I'm sorry. I tried to enjoy this book because it was recommended to me by my favorite author. I found it great to get me to sleep at night and not so great at inspiring me to seek adventure, spiritual or otherwise. I had no idea what this dope-head was talking about.

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