The Snow Leopard
#42 of 3,809 books · #21 in Biography & Memoir
Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1980) and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1979). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
An account of the author's two-hundred-fifty-mile journey, on foot, from Kathmandu, Nepal, to the Crystal Mountain, in Tibet, in search of the Himalayan blue sheep, the rare snow leopard, and distances of the spirit.
- Publisher
- Ji jie feng
- ISBN-13
- 9781860461538
- Genre
- Topics
- Himalayan travelSpiritual journeyWildlife exploration
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1980)
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1979)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1978)
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