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The snow leopard / Peter Matthiessen ; introduction by Pico Iyer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2008Description: xxviii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143105510 :
  • 0143105515
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 915.496 23/swe
Contents:
Westward -- Northward -- At Crystal Mountain -- The way home.
Summary: "In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest— to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty."--Publisher information.
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Bok Orkanenbiblioteket 900-999 915.4 mat Available 3204047379
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Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-325) and index.

Westward -- Northward -- At Crystal Mountain -- The way home.

"In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest— to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty."--Publisher information.