![]() ![]() ![]() From someone who has recently lost a loved one (Matthiessen began the trip following the death of his wife), someone who looks to overcome their problems. It describes a journey not just of distance but of self. It examines the beauty inherent in the escape from technology and the modern rat-race, reflecting on the absurdity that is a commercialist existence. It would be a travesty to suggest this book is simply a natural history book, it is so much more. A journey of 250 miles through the Himalaya's to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetean plateau. Schaller looking to study the wild blue mountain sheep. As the name of the book suggests, Matthiessen was looking for the rare and elusive Snow Leopard. The Snow Leopard recounts the journey Matthiessen and fellow naturalist George Schaller made to the Shey Gompa region of Nepal in 1973. He also won the 2008 Fiction Award and the 2010 William Dean Howells Medal for Shadow Country. Winning the 1979 Contemporary Thought Award and 1980 General Non-Fiction award for this very book. Matthiessen was a literary giant, the only writer to win the National Book Award for both fiction and non-fiction. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen was the choice this time, a classic novel of discovery. Every so often I like to lift my head above the science fiction and fantasy world and read something unconnected. ![]()
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