Excellent book for reading by the campfire

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	• THE SNOW LEOPARD (PICADOR BOOKS) PETER MATTHIESSEN PAN, 1980 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 67 reviews
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Snow Leopard is a must own book.

I keep only books that I find valuable in my life. The Snow Leopard is one of these. It is a must have/must own book. One of the best books I ever read. Always stands clear in my mind and is something to look up to. A classic.

This book is not about Snow Leopards

If you hope to find information about snow leopards in this book you are wasting your time. However, if you are in the mood for paradox and descriptions about the parallel lines that are drawn in the author life between his inner quest (enlightenment) and its outer quest (to find the snow leopard in the Mountains of Northern Nepal) is very probable that you will find this book interesting.

It is true that the book is written with elegance and style. Nevertheless, I wonder if the author wanted to reflect its tempo the geography of Nepal, since it is full of up and downs. In other words, in the same chapter one paragraph could be bright and full of details, wonderful clever ideas and suddenly without any transition you stumble into the most boring and superfluous descriptions. Therefore, if you are into wildlife studies leave it aside, but if you want to hear the traveling record of a Zen student you might enjoy it.

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Snow Leopard is a must own book.

I keep only books that I find valuable in my life. The Snow Leopard is one of these. It is a must have/must own book. One of the best books I ever read. Always stands clear in my mind and is something to look up to. A classic.

Do not give up on this book...

I must admit, I found it very hard to get into this book, mostly because I was starting it with a poor attitude. I didn't like the idea of someone deliberately going to Tibet to become "enlightened" and kept telling myself that I shouldn't be learning about zen buddhism through an american author,...HOWEVER, once I realized that the author wasn't as pretentious as he originally seemed and that he realized the problems with searching for the enlightened experinece, I found it to be a very thought provoking novel. In the end, I came away with a new look at what it means to live in the moment, and that is that you can only do it for short moments in your life, and that it only comes once you stop trying to find it.

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Excellent book for reading by the campfire

I had this book on my shelf for ~ 15 years before I read it (it was a gift from a friend). I must've started reading the book about a dozen times without getting further than 20 pages into the story before putting it down. Then, I just recently went on a week-long camping trip in a quiet corner of the Rocky Mountains. At the start of the trip, I happened to grab "The Snow Leopard" on my way out the door (I knew I'd need reading material, and it just happened to be the first book at hand in my "not-yet-read" bookshelf). In the rustic and remote setting of the Rocky Mountains, this book was transformed from a self-serving exposition of sentimentality to a very thought-provoking and entertaining travelogue, in which the external terrain encountered by the author becomes a catalyst for exploring the internal world inside our minds. I would recommend finding a quiet spot somewhere outside as the perfect place to read "The Snow Leopard."

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