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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 05/11/2020
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ISBN: 9781784876845
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 215mm x 34mm x 145mm
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Weight: 407g
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RRP: £16.99
'A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among' Paul Theroux
'A delight' i Paper
This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a 'journey of the heart' - amongst the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace. He was also searching for a glimpse of a snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be almost mythical.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD MABEY
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 05/11/2020
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ISBN: 9781784876845
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 215mm x 34mm x 145mm
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Weight: 407g
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RRP: £16.99
Reviews
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A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among
Paul Theroux
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What began as a practical search for the rare snow leopard, revered Buddhist emblem, developed into a quest for the meaning of Being. An enjoyable combination of mountaineering and mysticism
Observer
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It's a tale of an inner struggle for calm, and would be an inspiring and sustaining desert island companion
Emily Barr
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As much the chronicle of an inner journey as it is the learned recording of an unfamiliar territory...a timeless account
Independent
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An evocative account of a remote and timeless place and its people
Sunday Times
