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The Snow Leopard

Von: Peter Matthiessen, Pico Iyer - introduction
Gesprochen von: Peter Matthiessen
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An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...

IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty.
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

“My favorite record of an animal voyage is a book that’s fluent in failure, Peter Matthiessen’s nonfiction masterpiece The Snow Leopard . . . the great perfect shock of The Snow Leopard is that Matthiessen never actually sees a snow leopard . . . that failure becomes a powerful lesson in loss, a chance to meditate on the tangled nature of visibility and invisibility.” —Sam Anderson, The New York Times Magazine

“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal

“Stunning . . . Fiercely felt and magnificently written . . . [Matthiessen] has expressed with uncommon candor and no prospect of relief, a longing which keeps the soul striving and alert in us all.” —Washington Post

“A magical book, a kind of lunar paradigm and map of the sacred.” —The Nation

“A beautiful, magnificent book that gives off at once the resonance of a classic . . . One of the most wonderful accountsI know of journeying in our time.” —W. S. Merwin
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The audio really ruins the book for me, noisy recording, the voice is monotonous with pauses at the wrong places. It's an audio book, why start it with "we didn't have enough time to record - this is what we got" and then deliver a bad recording?

bad audio

Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Bitte versuche es in ein paar Minuten noch einmal.

Great story and insights miserably presented. Good writers -sadly- are not always professional speakers. Sound quality needs improvement. Gave up listening after chapter 18.

Disappointed

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