'This is the story of a girl and a leopard, of the high, cold mountains and star spangled snow, prayer flags and magic. Woven out of folk tales and dreams. The book began with the words, caught in the wind while out on a walk along the cliffs in Pembrokeshire and captured in the small note book that should go everywhere with me, when I remember. As I tried to put the pictures together with the words the two elements began to merge, writing pictures and words together. I read books on snow leopards. I had always been fascinated by these wonderful creatures, so seldom seen. Their huge tails and thick fur, their mythical quality as well as the mountains through which they range, knowing no boundaries or borders made by man all makes these animal so beautiful. Many years ago I bought The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesson. At last I settled to read it, thinking it was about the search for the leopard. It wasn't, it was a search for other things, but the book created wonderful images in my head, images of wildness and patience.' Jackie Morris (Hardback)