The Snow Leopard

This article is about the fact-based first-person book. For the recording by Shearwater, see The Snow Leopard (EP). For the animal, see snow leopard. For the Italian historical novel, see The Leopard.
The Snow Leopard
First edition
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
LanguageEnglish
GenreTravel literature, Natural history
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
1978
Publication placeNepal
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback & e-book)
Pages338 pp (hardcover)
ISBN0-670-65374-8
OCLC3604372
915.49/6
LC ClassQH193.H5 M37 1978

The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya.