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Cargando... The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) (1978 original; edición 1996)por Peter Matthiessen (Autor)
Información de la obraEl leopardo de las nieves por Peter Matthiessen (1978)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. “Behind and below, among swirls made by snow gleam and the ice-broken black brook, a surreal figure very like my own pursues me across the vast floor of the mountains. It crosses the shining boulders, coming on with slow, portentous step. The sight of this figure brings a small foreboding, as if it were the self of dreams who seeks me out with the coming of the day at the black labyrinthine river, in dead whiteness.” Published in 1978, this book is the author’s memoir of his journey to the Himalayas to search for the elusive snow leopard. Accompanied by biologist George Schaller, porters, and Sherpas, he crossed mountains to reach the remote region of Dolpo, Nepal on the Tibetan plateau. Along the way he describes his spiritual quest based on the principles of Zen Buddhism in the wake of his wife’s death from cancer. It contains atmospheric nature and travel writing. It is filled with philosophical musings. It is written in the form of a daily diary from September 28 to December 1, 1973. Matthiessen’s detailed descriptions provide the reader with a sense of the stark beauty of the region, the harsh weather conditions, and the manner in which the people live. I particularly enjoyed their visit to the monastery at Crystal Mountain. It is a book where the journey is more important than the destination. “In worrying about the future, I despoil the present.” I really enjoyed this book learning a lot about snow leopards (Panthera uncia), bharal (Pseudois nayaur), the Himalayas, and the Nepalese people. The main reason why I wanted to read this book so bad was because the snow leopard has been on of my favorite animals since childhood. And even though Peter Matthiessen wasn't a mammologist he had Dr. George Schaller as a travel companion through the whole journey. Side Note: The author of this book, Peter Matthiessen, happened to be a classmate of my paternal grandfather's at both Hotchkiss and Yale. What I most thought of in reading this book was its year of publication: 1978. Both because of the ecological crisis Matthiessen portrays (good god, what must it be like now, more than 30 years on?! Is it all lost?) and because of the very distinctive 1970s male sensibility in his work-- which might not even be perceptible to a reader who is not of Matthiessen's generation, as I am. A kind of sturdy and guiltless self-absorption that is likely no longer available to us fallen children is both nostalgic and a little nightmarish, to a woman who's lived with guys like this for a few decades. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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«Un hombre sale de viaje y es otro quien regresa.» Éste es el sentido del viaje de Matthiessen, y de todo auténtico viaje. En otoño de 1973 el escritor Peter Matthiessen y el zoólogo George Schaller emprendieron una expedición a la Montaña de Cristal, en la meseta del Tíbet, para estudiar los hábitos de un animal no muy conocido: el bharal o cordero azul himalayo. Pero su auténtica esperanza era poder ver al más hermoso y raro de los grandes felinos: el leopardo de las nieves. Para Matthiessen, adentrarse en la tierra de Dolpo significará mucho más que una expedición naturalista o una aventura: despojarse de las ventajas y las ataduras de la civilización, convivir con hombres y paisajes en su más elemental belleza, adentrarse en él mismo por las vías que le proporcionan el budismo o el zen. «Lo que comenzó como una búsqueda del leopardo de las nieves, ese animal raro, venerado y emblema budista, se convirtió en una búsqueda del sentido del ser. Una soberbia combinación de montañismo y misticismo». Observer No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I'd recommend this for readers interested in personal spiritual journeys undertaken in nature and fans of nature-based travel writing, but that's about all I can say, I fear. It was fine, but it really wasn't for me. ( )