{"id":442,"date":"2012-09-02T00:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=442"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:30:25","slug":"year-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1978: <strong>The Snow Leopard<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Peter Matthiessen<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1022418~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-443  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard1-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard1-624x492.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Snow Leopard<\/em> documents author Peter Matthiessen\u2019s trek across the Himalayas to Crystal Mountain in the Dolpo region. His vivid imagery and detailed descriptions have been described as so complete that \u201cyou hardly yearn for photographs\u201d, garnering the book such accolades as the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1980. Matthiessen\u2019s pilgrimage to the Buddhist center of the world and his search for the elusive snow leopard can be seen as a metaphor for his inner personal and spiritual journey. Matthiessen, a follower of Buddhism, also explains many tenets and beliefs of his faith interspersed with descriptions of the land.<\/p>\n<p>Matthiessen never did glimpse a snow leopard. Perhaps appropriately, because then his journey would have been complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard2-624x372.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/SnowLeopard2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1978: The Snow Leopard Author\/Editor: Peter Matthiessen Find it in Collins Library! The Snow Leopard documents author Peter Matthiessen\u2019s trek across the Himalayas to Crystal Mountain in the Dolpo region. His vivid imagery and detailed descriptions have been described as so complete that \u201cyou hardly yearn for photographs\u201d, garnering the book such accolades as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1968-1977"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}