Tigers In Red Weather by Ruth Padel
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 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.
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| 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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