Recommendations from our site
“This book is pretty iconic in the world of travel writing. He was a Zen Buddhist, and wanted to visit the monastery at the Crystal Mountain. What you get is a real education in Buddhism, and without trying to spoil it for anyone else, it is a meditative journey on death, loss, suffering, healing, breathing, and the snow leopard itself which comes to represent a kind of harmony between what is real and what is not.” Read more...
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Louis Hall, Travel Writer
“The book stands apart and it remains fresh because of the ways that Matthiessen weaves his exploration of the outer world with his own inner one.” Read more...
Nick Pyenson, Science Writer
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