1995
First Published
4.35
Average Rating
192
Number of Pages
Describes the landscape and culture of the isolated Himalayan area, which the author and photographer explored as the first outsiders in thirty years
Avg Rating
4.35
Number of Ratings
26
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Author
Peter Matthiessen
Author · 32 books
Peter Matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, in two categories, in 1979 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, he died in April 2014.
