The Snow Leopard
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 2/29/2016
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
1 journaler for this copy...
Synopsis (credit: back cover)
Peter Matthiessen's search in the Himalayas for the elusive snow leopard is also a celebrated account of the bond between man and nature.
What began in part as an expedition of patient documenting with the eminent field biologist, George Schaller, became a true exploration of the spirit.
Winner: National Book Awards: Contemporary Thought 1979.
Winner: National Book Awards: General Nonfiction (paperback) 1980.
Shortlist: National Book Critics Circle Awards: General Nonfiction 1978.
(Bought second-hand at Kloof Street Library, Tamboerskloof.)
Read on 2019-12-29.
Part extreme wilderness trek, part natural history, part mountain meditation. And, like the mountains, the book will not leave anybody untouched that engages with it.
"The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no 'meaning', they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day."
Part extreme wilderness trek, part natural history, part mountain meditation. And, like the mountains, the book will not leave anybody untouched that engages with it.
"The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no 'meaning', they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day."
Given to potential BCer RP.
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