The Snow Leopard
- ISBN-10
- 0670653748
- ISBN-13
- 9780670653744
- Series
- The Snow Leopard
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 338
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
Description
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
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