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Referenced during discussion of snow leopards and Mongolia. Clarified that Matthiessen wrote about snow leopards in Nepal, not Mongolia where the guest was working.

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During a discussion about the difficulty of filming snow leopards in the wild, someone mentions 'Peter Mathison wrote a whole damn book, never saw one' (note: the author's name is misspelled in the transcript as 'Mathison' but clearly refers to Peter Matthiessen's famous book 'The Snow Leopard' about his journey to the Himalayas where he never saw the elusive snow leopard he was seeking).

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Referenced during discussion about condor conservation and captive breeding programs. The speaker mentions: 'It was in Matheson's book America's what was it called Wildlife in America. I read it, but I don't remember it.' The book was being cited regarding Audubon's position on collecting birds for captive breeding programs.

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The speaker discusses a book by writer Peter Matthiessen (spelled 'Matheson' in transcript) about muskox. He describes it as 'sort of like a magazine article that turned into a book' and mentions that Matthiessen discusses how some natives call muskox 'oomingmak' and relates imagery about the muskox's wool swaying like chain mail and how the wool meets tall grass in a way that makes it hard to distinguish where one ends and one begins. The specific book title is not mentioned in the transcript.

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Steve references a book Matthiessen wrote in the sixties about musk ox on Nunivak Island. He was reading a passage from it at the airport about Anchorage in 1964. The specific title is not mentioned, but it's clearly a book about musk ox hunting/observation in Alaska.

Context:

Steve mentions that many people know Peter Matthiessen through his book 'Snow Leopard' while discussing another book Matthiessen wrote about musk ox on Nunivak Island that Steve was reading on his way to Alaska.