Vanishing Tracks: Four Years Among the Snow Leopards of Nepal |
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... looked down at all the passengers walk- ing from Kurt's plane to the terminal . Over six feet tall , with blond hair and blue eyes , Kurt looked like a Viking among the small , dark - haired , brown - skinned Nepalese . As he emerged ...
... looked down at all the passengers walk- ing from Kurt's plane to the terminal . Over six feet tall , with blond hair and blue eyes , Kurt looked like a Viking among the small , dark - haired , brown - skinned Nepalese . As he emerged ...
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... looked into the scope , and there - astonishingly close through the lens - was the animal that had become the object of all our thoughts and actions , virtually the sole purpose of our existence . It lay beside the trap , moving just ...
... looked into the scope , and there - astonishingly close through the lens - was the animal that had become the object of all our thoughts and actions , virtually the sole purpose of our existence . It lay beside the trap , moving just ...
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... looked eight minutes earlier . Karan had been first up that morning to check the traps — the sites he had chosen and the traps he and Rod had set together . Delighted and proud to find his first success , he called Rod . " What to do ...
... looked eight minutes earlier . Karan had been first up that morning to check the traps — the sites he had chosen and the traps he and Rod had set together . Delighted and proud to find his first success , he called Rod . " What to do ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LISTS OF CHARACTERS | 13 |
MAPS PROLOGUE | 19 |
PART ONE November 1981September 1982 | 29 |
Copyright | |
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