If you liked the memoir plot in The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. Arabian Sands
By: Wilfred Thesiger
4.19
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty … read more
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- classics
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
"Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching disintegration of his society and the destruction of ‘his belief…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
"I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent t…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
2. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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- classics
- nature
- adventure
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
3. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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- classics
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
4. The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
By: Craig Childs
3.72
Format: None pages,
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating t… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
5. Findings
By: Kathleen Jamie
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poe… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
Similar categories in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard book and Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard
- classics
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
7. Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
By: Diana L. Eck
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religio… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Ian Baker
3.93
Format: None pages,
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adventure
9. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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10. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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11. Sometimes a Great Notion
By: Ken Kesey
4.26
Format: 628 pages, Paperback
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Follo… read more
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- classics
"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
". . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
12. Annapurna
By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
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13. Encounters with the Archdruid
By: John McPhee
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a … read more
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14. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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15. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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16. The Marsh Arabs
By: Wilfred Thesiger , Jon Lee Anderson
4.16
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost compl… read more
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17. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
By: Rolf Potts
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
Vagabondingis about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two ye… read more
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18. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- classics
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
19. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
20. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.48
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
Che cos'è l'andare in montagna senza la conquista della cima? Un atto di non violenza, un desiderio… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"Levantar el campamento cada día es la ley de la caravana, pero para comprender habría que detenerse, quedarse."-Paolo Cognetti, Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
"Dans cette vallée, rien n'avançait ni ne reculait, tout tournait en rond, suivant le motif de l'éternel retour, ou de l'éternelle réécriture. Et ce mouvement était tout sauf stérile."-Paolo Cognetti, Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
"Mi accorsi che già nel dire guadagnare e perdere c'è un senso economico tutto occidentale dell'andare in montagna, dove quota e distanza sono i capitali che accumuliamo con la nostra fatica, e non ci…"-Paolo Cognetti, Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
