Tigers In Red Weather
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:5th Oct '06
Should be back in stock very soon
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* A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger.
*'Lyrical and deeply impressive . . . a gripping and informative book' GUARDIAN
When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildlife sanctuary. Her impromptu trip was the start of a remarkable two-year journey in search of that most elusive and beautiful animal: the tiger.
Armed with her granny's opera glasses and a pair of Tunisian trainers, she sets off across Asia to ask the question: can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild? Plunging into leech-infested jungles, she tracks tigers by jeep, by elephant and on foot, from Bangladesh to Bhutan, from China to far-east Russia. The result is a unique blend of natural history, travel literature and memoir, and an intimate portrait of an animal we have loved and feared almost to destruction.
There are few women writing non-fiction today with such a sophisticated understanding of language, such a nuanced approach to style, and such a brazen willingness to engage with the big issues, personal and political. This is a gripping and informative book, always intriguing and occasionally dazzling * GUARDIAN *
Thrilling and surprising . . . her prose has an intense, lush quality . . . She has an adventurer's intrepid spirit and a poet's eye for detail and ear for dialogue * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
An extraordinary travel-memoir . . . this is no mere gutsy travelogue, but a poet's attempt to do what a scientist does: "saying precisely what and how you saw" . . . utterly compelling * INDEPENDENT *
Ruth Padel is a wonderful writer and she has produced perhaps the best book ever written on the places where tigers live * EVENING STANDARD *
- Short-listed for Dolman Travel Prize 2006 (UK)
- Short-listed for Kiriyama Prize, Pacific Rim Voices 2007 (UK)
ISBN: 9780349116983
Dimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 30mm
Weight: 356g
448 pages