Snow Leopards (Explore My World)

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It is quite beautiful as such and if I can take away the glint of perfection he describes in those moments of just taking in what is there as it is when it is. They go with a number of sherpas and encounter a very few people along their way, though PM does actually meet the Lama of Shay. She has international training experience through the presentation of records training sessions for the regional zoo associations in Argentina, India, and South Korea, and for individual zoos in Ecuador, Hawaii, New York, and South Korea. Other sections describe established and emerging threats, including human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade, infrastructure development, and climate change along with conservation solutions used to address these threats. He has been a Steering Committee member of the Snow Leopard Network since its inception in 2003 and is currently the elected Chairman of that 400 member organization, which represents nearly every biologist and conservationist now active in the snow leopard world.

For example, cultural similarities of Eskimo, Native American and the peoples of Nepal and Tibet and Japan are discussed.I had Shadow Country on my shelf and every intention of getting to it soon, but didn't realize he had this whole other nonfiction output. For example, towards the end of the book Matthiessen sits on some rocks and observes "These hard rocks instruct my bones in what my brain could never grasp in the Heart Sutra, that 'form is emptiness and emptiness is form'— the Void, the emptiness of blue-black space, contained in everything.

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. It's not given any frills or decoration, other than beautiful and inimitable descriptions of nature. It is a book that celebrates the spark of life that propels us towards transcending our heavy human existence in pursuit of something. Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and snow, thrust an implacable being into the blue.It has been included in several lists of best travel books including World Hum's ten most celebrated books, [9] Washington Post Book World's Travel Books That Will Take You Far, [10] and National Geographic Traveler's Around the World in 80+ Books. The snow leopard is also known as an 'ounce' Or that they are the only big cats that live in the cold deserts of Asia Snow leopards also have small, rounded ears, which help to prevent heat loss.