Snow Leopard Reading List

Searching for the Snow Leopard: Guardian of the High Mountains | By Shavaun Mara Kidd and Björn Persson
Published in partnership with the Snow Leopard Conservancy, world- renowned wildlife photographers, naturalists, and conservationists take the reader closer than most humans will ever get to knowing snow leopards and understanding why these beautiful big cats have for so long been considered the most mysterious of all.

The Snow Leopard | By Peter Matthiessen
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.

Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya | By George B. Schaller
Schaller's account of his and others' long struggle to save the fascinating, increasingly rare wildlife of the Himalayas combines high adventure, close description, and scientific dedication.

Snow Leopard: Stories from the Roof of the World | By Don Hunter
Giving a voice to the snow leopard, this collection of powerful first- person accounts from an impressive cadre of scientist-adventurers grants readers a rare glimpse of this elusive cat and the remarkable lives of those personally connected to its future.

A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism | By Andrew Harvey
Buddhists have meditated in the mountains of Ladakh since three centuries before Christ, and it is there that the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is still practiced today. This is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India.

Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives | By Sunil Khilnani
At once a provocative and sophisticated reinterpretation of India’s history and an incisive commentary on its present-day conflicts and struggles, Incarnations is an authoritative, sweeping, and often moving account of a nation coming into its own.

The Far Field | By Madhuri Vijay
Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present.

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