ART OF PATIENCE THE

Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2019A New York Times Best Book of 2021‘Extraordinarily beautiful… a long last loving glance at the planet.’ Carl Safina author of Becoming WildThe Art of Patience sees the renowned French adventurer and writer set off for the high plateaux of remotest Tibet in search of the elusive snow leopard. There in the company of leading wildlife photographer Vincent Munier and two companions at 5000 metres and in temperatures of -25ºC the team set up their hides on exposed mountainsides and occasionally in the luxury of an icy cave to await a visitation from the almost mythical beast.This tightly focused and tautly written narrative is simultaneously a dazzling account of an exacting journey an apprenticeship in the art of patience an acceptance of the ruthlessness of the natural world and finally a plea for ecological sanity.A small masterpiece it is one of those books that demands to be read again and again.