Schwartz has extensive experience in international conservation efforts through involvement in IUCN/Species Survival Commission’s Conservation Planning, Conservation Translocation, Tapir, Otter, and Wildlife Health Specialist Groups.

With over 20 stunning photos, even early readers will enjoy it, as well as adults It is the perfect book for teaching children to read while learning about the exciting world of snow leopards. The memories of Deborah operate with a number of other recursive stylistic traits that play against the linear, outward progress of the journey logged through maps and dates. Through Matthiessen’s experiences we rub shoulders with llamas, sherpas, bearers and the Nepalese people. Los cegadores picos nevados y el aire sonoro, el ruido de la Tierra y los cielos en silencio, las aves sepultureras, los animales míticos, los estandartes, los grandes cuernos y las antiguas piedras labradas, los tártaros toscamente tallados, con sus trenzas y sus botas de fabricación casera, el hielo plateado en el Río Negro, el Kang, la Montaña de Cristal.This wayfaring in shifting sun, in snow and cloud worlds, so close to the weather, makes me happy; the morbid feeling of this dawn has passed away. Although broken up into short segments, it doesn’t bode well to skim or read in snippets (although to be honest, I had a tendency to do this – skipping along – backing up – going forward – and back again, if I felt I missed an important detail. At the same time, exciting episodes of blizzards and extremely harsh conditions has one viewing one’s own experiences from a new perspective.

I believe this is one reason some reviewers like the book less, that he is grumpy and cool and removed even by his own accounts, but this is one reason I admired his self reflection here. Well, it might have been shelved with books on science, but despite the title there's really little here about the snow leopard and not enough really about nature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society of London, as well as a member of the International Editorial Board for Oryx, the International Journal of Conservation. it is interesting to note that both Matthiessen and Schaller also had difficulty mastering the ability to attain an inner calm. They also say that there is a police check post at Saldang, which makes it inadvisable for us to go there” (p.His wife just died of cancer and he left behind his young eight-year-old son for a dangerous adventure climbing the Himalayas.

My review for it quotes the author saying how little has changed in the 40+ years since the original journey but I realise now how untrue that statement is. His descriptions of the landscape, the villages, his relationships with the people he meets and travels with, the wildlife he sees, his quest for spiritual enlightenment, and his deep sorrow at his wife’s death the previous year, all are written in the most inspiring and honest language.

Several times now I have seen them, but I had waited to see them initially until I was done with this book. It won the National Book Award in 1978, when I was first teaching, and I was not yet ready to read it. Doesn't go into much detail but is more bullet points about the animals and very honest doesn't shy away from how these animals get there food without being gory or gratuitous. They know the sun warms, even in very cold temperatures, and manage through intelligence and knowledge.

Schaller has a grant to study the mating habits of the blue bharal sheep (a rare, ancient breed as close to goat as sheep) and that is the primary purpose of the journal. Matthiessen is no novice, he’s widely traveled and published in naturalism, anthropology, history and straight-up literature. I was surprised to learn that this towering mountainous snowscape is at the same latitude of the Florida Keys. They have to rely on getting to the tiny outposts for sustenance, in time, and the monasteries high in the mountains where the miniscule culture exists. This book is another classic in the Snow Leopards genre, with it’s gripping story of the very first radio collaring of wild snow leopards in the early 1980’s.There is an informative endnote with lots of facts about the endangered snow leopard for children and adults to learn. But to see one is the lifelong goal (much as enlightenment is to his on-again off-again friend Matthiessen) of the author's travelling companion.