The Snow Leopard

Matthiessen, Peter

ISBN 10: 0670653748 / ISBN 13: 9780670653744

Published by Viking Press, 1978

About this Item

G-/G-. Aug 1978 Viking hardcover 1st trade edition 1st printing with map endpapers. Edgewear, chipping (including a BIG one on front) and folds on dj, sunning and staining on cover and dj, small owner's label on ffep, a lot of soil/foxing on edge, else text clean, binding tight, NOTE: This copy is not the one in the picture (which I think is the UK edition). Seller Inventory # ABE-1704244057553

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Snow Leopard

Publisher: Viking Press

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

An account of the author's two-hundred-fifty-mile journey, on foot, from Kathmandu, Nepal, to the Crystal Mountain, in Tibet, in search of the Himalayan blue sheep, the rare snow leopard, and distances of the spirit

Review:

a Stunning . . . Fiercely felt and magnificently written.a
a"The Washington Post Book World"
a A magical book, a kind of lunar paradigm and map of the sacred.a
aJim Harrison, "The Nation"

Stunning . . . Fiercely felt and magnificently written.
"The Washington Post Book World"
A magical book, a kind of lunar paradigm and map of the sacred.
Jim Harrison, "The Nation"

? Stunning . . . Fiercely felt and magnificently written.?
?"The Washington Post Book World"

? A magical book, a kind of lunar paradigm and map of the sacred.?
?Jim Harrison, "The Nation"