About this title: Author Matthiessen documents his travels in Nepal with naturalist George Schaller, including his attempts to come to grips with his wife's death from cancer, and his general pondering of questions of life and death. The snow leopard becomes a symbol to Matthiessen of the elusive silence of the peace of Zen.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780553123432ISBN:0553123432
Description: Good- 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wraps are rubbed and creased. No markings in text. Pages tanning in margins. Prior owner name on fep. read more
Description: Good. 0553123432 100% guaranteed. Good shape with a tight spine, creased spine, creased cover, worn cover, bent corners on cover, yellowing pages, clean pages, and typical shelf wear for a good used book. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1978-08-30
ISBN-13:9780670653744ISBN:0670653748
Description: Fair. Hardcover, no dust jacket (missing). Hardcover shows light wear to edges, corners and spine tips. Moderate to heavy soiling to boards-especially to edges. Endpapers and pages are clean and lightly and evenly sunned, minor pencil marking on half-title page, no markings. Last 100 pages or so show minor dampstaining to lower right corner. Text block is slightly shaken, hinges are solid, pages are bound tight. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pan, London
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780330261616ISBN:0330261614
Description: Good. 312p. : 2maps ; 20 cm. Picador.. Includes maps. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1978 ; London : Chatto and Windus, 1979. Includes index. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I was so excited about reading this while in Mongolia- not far from where snow leopards used to be seen. But, I was disappointed to find that the book, although celebrated during the 1960's, was a really self-centered account, I thought, about one man's travels and his struggles with his divorce and estranged child, his feeling of having missed too many important years through drug experimentation, and so on. He took off on tangents, which took on a strained quality, in trying to associate them with Buddhism. The few remarks on the snow leopard tracking were mildly interesting. The information on George Schaller, our author's traveling companion, was pretty cool, since some of the nature exhibits we saw in Mongolia were acknowledged to GS. Perhaps this book was so popular during the 1960's/ 1970's precisely due to the era during which it came out?"
"Per my book club, I brought a copy of this on a rainy back packing trip with only a week to finish. He bounces from spiritualism to nature travel throughout the book. I learned a lot - firstly that summer rain in the sierras is not rough mountain weather, and a lot about religious history. I also learned that goats and sheep have different preference when it comes to sucking their own genitalia and drinking their lovers urine (water sports!). Finally I learned that in the 70s it makes sense to spend months deliberating on the classification of a cloven foot animal based on its mating behaviors, but you can read a few books about the history of religion and breeze through a town and have a clear understanding of specific people in minutes. Oh, the seventies - they're so pre post pre!"
"I liked the style, and I appreciate the trek story and local detail of a region that I know next to nothing about. And clearly, the author is amazingly disciplined in his style--few authors are as tight and controlled and yet elegant in their writing as Matthiessen. But for some reason, I was just not in the mood for Zen Buddhist teachings when I read this. The book is more about reaching a state of mind than reaching a destination--and these little spiritual and philosophical lessons are interspersed throughout the trek story. I wanted more trek story, less philosophy."
"the snow leopard is my favorite animal, and i've liked other books i've read that are influenced by buddhism, so i had high hopes when i found this at the library. i was disappointed (and didn't finish it). it's basically a very long journal following one american guy's hike with a researcher into the mountains in nepal, describing the various people he encounters in pretty stereotypical ways (maybe because it's from the 1970s, but there was no need then, either), and not finding any snow leopards-- at least not in the first 100 or so pages. if you want western-interpreted buddhism, go for hesse or kerouac. if you want snow leopards, get a picture book, i guess!"
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