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The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0002720256
- ISBN 13
- 9780002720250
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Harvill Press, London, 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 312 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. An account of the author's search for the rare snow leopard, travelling on foot from Kathmandu to the remote Crystal Mountain, high in the Himalayas by way of Annapurna. What began as an expedition became, for Mathiessen, a true pilgrimage of the heart. The book won the US National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen"s many books include "Indian Country", "Nine-Headed Dragon River" and "Men's Lives". Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Nepal; 1970s; ISBN: 0002720256. ISBN/EAN: 9780002720250. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9037. . 9780002720250
Synopsis
The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen, which is an account of his two month journey along with naturalist George Schaller in 1973 to Crystal Mountain, in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9037
- Title
- The Snow Leopard
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0002720256
- ISBN 13
- 9780002720250
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BZDB137 travel, himalayas, snow leopard, nature, spiritual, Travel & Places; Nepal; 1970s; ISBN: 0002720256 EAN: 9780002720250 Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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