Tigers In Red Weather by Ruth Padel
* 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
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 politicalThis 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 *
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 *
Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet, journalist and broadcaster -- and the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She lives in North London with her daughter.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780349116983 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349116989 |
| Title | Tigers In Red Weather |
| Author | Ruth Padel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2006-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Dolman Travel Prize 2006 (UK), Short-listed for Kiriyama Prize, Pacific Rim Voices 2007 (UK) |
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