East of Lo Monthang

by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas Laird (Photographer)

Describes the landscape and culture of the isolated Himalayan area, which the author and photographer explored as the first outsiders in thirty years

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, History, Asia

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 24, 1995

About the author

Peter Matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, in two categories, in 1979 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, he died in April 2014.

Reviews

[Werner · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMAZING! This book is very inspirational in a hundred ways.

[Clivemichael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Describes an amazing place with skill