'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
| ISBN: | 9781784876845 |
| Publication date: | 5th November 2020 |
| Author: | Peter Matthiessen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Travel writing |