寻找幽灵：雪豹神话的消逝与保护的新焦点

Views Book of the week Looking for a ghost A remarkable book shows how the near-spiritual myth of the snow leopard is giving way to a harsher, more urgent focus, discovers Adam Weymouth Book The Ghost of the Mountains Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Granta Books (UK); Riverhead Books (US) LIKE many large carnivores, the snow leopard is eclipsed by an outsize reputation, which makes it almost impossible to separate the animal from the story. The solitary, largely silent cat is often spoken of as being not there – a shadow, a ghost – with its ethereal presence, in the Buddhist heartlands of the Himalaya, bordering on the spiritual. …