Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas.
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448112656
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 336
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The Snow Leopard and the Goat shows that characterization of this dilemma as a conflict between humans (farmers) and wildlife (snow leopards) is in fact misleading, as the real conflict is between two human groups--farmers and ...
Author: Shafqat Hussain
Publisher: Culture, Place, and Nature
ISBN: 9780295746579
Category: History
Page: 240
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A guardian spirit in the form of a snow leopard looks over a small village in the Himalayas, and chooses a human successor, whom she trains to sing songs that will protect the villagers from soldiers who search for gold and slaves.
Author: Jackie Morris
Publisher: Graffeg
ISBN: 9781912050475
Category:
Page: 48
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Snow Leopards: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes is the only comprehensive work on the biology, behavior, and conservation status of the snow leopard, a species that has long been one of the least studied, and ...
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Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128024968
Category: Nature
Page: 644
View: 647
When wolves enter the valley, Samu the snow leopard knows that she and her cub, Ka, will have to move on in search of food elsewhere Winter is coming, and in the mountains of Nepal, Sabu the snow leopard and her young cub, Ka, are beginning ...
Author: Theresa Radcliffe
Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780670850525
Category: Leopard
Page: 32
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Madame de Morville, the leather-clad dominatrix from Paris, leads her captive reader on a nocturnal journey, travelling far beyond the jagged horizon of snow-capped mountains to the otherworld of the snow leopard, of the smooth-booted and ...
Author: Madame de Morville
Publisher: Stiletto Books
ISBN: 9781903908181
Category:
Page: 128
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Looks at how an international group is working to preserve Afghanistan's wildlife in the wake of years of war, describing how they have risked their safety to create a national park, perform wildlife surveys, and fight poaching.
Author: Alex Dehgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781541767775
Category: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Page:
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Provides an examination of the elusive snow leopards, who live along the mountain ridges of Mongolia and are seldom seen by humans, through the observations of a scientist and conservation director of the Snow Leopard Trust.
Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618916450
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 74
View: 831
When Tashi discovers a stranger's mailbox that never gets any mail, she writes a letter of kindness to its owner. But when she needs help the most, Tashi discovers that her kindness comes back to her in an unexpected way.
Author: Carrie Hasler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781943198108
Category:
Page: 32
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