Overview
Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas.
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
''A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among'' Paul Theroux
''A delight'' i Paper
- | Author: Peter Matthiessen
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Jan 22, 1998
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780099771111
- | ISBN-10: 009977111X
