An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once.
To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.
“If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes.
The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent.
To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.