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THE SNOW LEOPARD
THE SNOW LEOPARD is an account of Peter Matthiessen's two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.
The book recounts the journey of Matthiessen and Schaller in 1973 to Shey Gompa in the inner Dolpo region of Nepal. Schaller's original objective was to compare the mating habits of the Himalayan blue sheep (the bharal) with those of the common sheep of the USA, while for Matthiessen the trip was more of a spiritual exploration. Another aim was to spot the snow leopard, a predator on the bharal and a creature that was seldom seen (it had only been glimpsed twice by Westerners in the previous twenty five years).
The travel aspect of the work is in the tradition of writing by Sir Richard Burton, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. The nature writing aspect brings echoes of the work of Alexander von Humboldt or Charles Darwin. It also involves a meditation upon inner peace, as well as external exploration, in a way that is reminiscent of Basho, Wordsworth or Thoreau.
Schaller eventually spots a snow leopard, but Matthiessen does not. Questions of absence and presence play in tandem with the wider question of gaining peace through an acceptance of how the world is rather than desiring phenomena to arise which do not exist.
DER SCHNEELEOPARD
Deutsch von Maria Csollány und Stephan Schuhmacher
ueberarbeitet und mit einem Nachwort von Bernhard Malkmus
[ HC Matthes & Seitz 04/2021]
The book recounts the journey of Matthiessen and Schaller in 1973 to Shey Gompa in the inner Dolpo region of Nepal. Schaller's original objective was to compare the mating habits of the Himalayan blue sheep (the bharal) with those of the common sheep of the USA, while for Matthiessen the trip was more of a spiritual exploration. Another aim was to spot the snow leopard, a predator on the bharal and a creature that was seldom seen (it had only been glimpsed twice by Westerners in the previous twenty five years).
The travel aspect of the work is in the tradition of writing by Sir Richard Burton, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. The nature writing aspect brings echoes of the work of Alexander von Humboldt or Charles Darwin. It also involves a meditation upon inner peace, as well as external exploration, in a way that is reminiscent of Basho, Wordsworth or Thoreau.
Schaller eventually spots a snow leopard, but Matthiessen does not. Questions of absence and presence play in tandem with the wider question of gaining peace through an acceptance of how the world is rather than desiring phenomena to arise which do not exist.
DER SCHNEELEOPARD
Deutsch von Maria Csollány und Stephan Schuhmacher
ueberarbeitet und mit einem Nachwort von Bernhard Malkmus
[ HC Matthes & Seitz 04/2021]
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Published 1978-05-11 by Viking |