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Editorial Review
Across the most awesome mountains on earth, the Himalayas, Peter Matthiessen went in search of the rare snow leopard. His dangerous trip became a pilgrimage, a luminous journey of the heart.
"A memorable story of spiritual adventure. On page after page the reader's spine tingles. Matthiessen creates a unique picture of that upper Himalayan world in the resonant strokes that are his hallmark." (Audubon)
"Simply as a step-by-step account of villages entered, peaks crossed, the enormously elating business of survival, THE SNOW LEOPARD is stunning...It is also Matthiessen's attempt to stand beyond modern time...He has expressed with candor, and with no prospect of relief, a longing which keeps the soul striving and alert in all of us." (Washington Post Book World)
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Reviewer: P TAYLOR MCNEIL | April 28, 2006 |
| The Snow Leopard is a classic of travel literature -- inner and outer. It tells Matthiessen's story of a grueling journey, a pilgrimage of sorts, from Kathmandu to Shey Gompa in the inaccessible Inner Dolpo region of Nepal, hard on the Tibetan border, accompanying a biologist wanting to observe a sheep-goat hybrid in rut. Parallel to that is the story of Matthiessen's inner journey, a searcher of the truth, looking for meaning in life, and the Buddhist path he ends up traveling. This is no easy, light read: it's dense, written with the care of a poet. There are no lazy words leaning on each other here: the prose is adamantine, the author unsparing in his observations of himself and others. This is a book worth reading and re-reading, and this audio book version is an earnest reproduction of Matthiessen's work. Highly recommended. |
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Reviewer: Anonymous (see other books I've reviewed) | March 23, 2001 |
| If you're looking for a philosophical discussion on Eastern philosophy and the author's personal search for enlightenment,
then this book might be your cup of tea. It wasn't mine. I picked up from the "Adventure and the Sea" category and
expected something more reality-based, that would give me a sense of what it was like to visit
Nepal and the people and animals that you might find there. With those expectations, I was
very disappointed, and after about three tapes of the author's self-indulgent ramblings, I gave up. If you like philosophy,
by all means give it a try, but if you're looking for something lighter,
you may want to pass. |
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