Viking Press

Kerouac's novel about mountain climbing, Buddhism, and the search for meaning in postwar America is looser and warmer than On the Road. Based on his friendship with Gary Snyder (thinly disguised as Japhy Ryder), it captures a moment when wilderness and spiritual practice converged in the American imagination.

Kerouac's novel of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty crossing and recrossing America is the foundational text of the Beat Generation. The road is the point — not the destination, not the arrival, just the movement itself.

Peter Matthiessen trekked into the Crystal Mountain of Nepal searching for the Himalayan blue sheep and the snow leopard. He found something else entirely. This is a book about grief, Buddhism, and the practice of paying attention — set against some of the most remote terrain on earth.