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The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya .
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. [1] A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). [2]
Snow leopard on the reverse of the old 10,000-Kazakhstani tenge banknote Emblem of Tatarstan, depicting the Aq Bars, a mythical winged Snow leopard. The snow leopard is widely used in heraldry and as an emblem in Central Asia. The Aq Bars ('White Leopard') is a political symbol of the Tatars, Kazakhs, and Bulgars.
Schaller is one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in Nepal between 1950 and 1978. Accompanying him on the trip was Matthiessen, and as a result of the trip, Matthiessen wrote The Snow Leopard, (1978) detailing the accounts of their travels and research, which won two U.S. National Book Awards. [18]
Hemingway hunting on safari, 1934 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway first published in August 1936, in Esquire magazine. [1] It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition ...
The Search for the Snow Leopard is a Hardy Boys Digest novel, written by Franklin W. Dixon. It is the 139th volume in the Hardy Boys series of detective/adventure books and was published in 1996. [ 1 ]
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His quest to photograph snow leopards began in 2011 and involved six trips to Tibet before he first encountered the animal in 2016. [3] It resulted in two photo-books about Tibet and snow leopards, Tibet: promesse de l'invisible and Tibet: Minéral animal , both published in 2018 and the latter with texts by the writer Sylvain Tesson who joined ...
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