Peter Matthiessen was the cofounder of The Paris Review and is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Indian Country, and The Snow Leopard, winner of the National Book Award.
“My favorite record of an animal voyage is a book that’s fluent in
failure, Peter Matthiessen’s nonfiction masterpiece The Snow
Leopard . . . the great perfect shock of The Snow Leopard is that
Matthiessen never actually sees a snow leopard . . . that failure
becomes a powerful lesson in loss, a chance to meditate on the
tangled nature of visibility and invisibility.” —Sam Anderson, The
New York Times Magazine
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and
envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street
Journal
“Stunning . . . Fiercely felt and magnificently written . . .
[Matthiessen] has expressed with uncommon candor and no prospect of
relief, a longing which keeps the soul striving and alert in us
all.” —Washington Post
“A magical book, a kind of lunar paradigm and map of the
sacred.” —The Nation
“A beautiful, magnificent book that gives off at once the resonance
of a classic . . . One of the most wonderful accountsI know of
journeying in our time.” —W. S. Merwin
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