Tigers Between Empires The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
03.11.2026
Verlag
PicadorSeitenzahl
512
Maße (L/B/H)
20,9/13,6/2,5 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-250-44876-7
A Best Book of the Year: Scientific American, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, CounterPunch, The Telegraph, BookPage
A Chicago Tribune Most-Anticipated Book of the Season
"Epic . . . Slaght again shines his scientific-yet-soulful spotline on one of the world's most amazing creatures . . . [A] fascinating survival-revival tale." -Michiela Thuman, The Minnesota Star Tribune
The thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it.
The forests of northeast Asia are home to a marvelous range of animals-fish owls and brown bears, musk deer and moose, wolves and raccoon dogs, leopards and tigers. But by the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur River basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell, bringing catastrophe; without the careful oversight of a central authority, poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species.
Just as these changes arrived, scientists came together to found the Siberian Tiger Project. Led by Dale Miquelle, a moose researcher, and Zhenya Smirnov, a mouse biologist, the team captured and released more than 114 tigers over three decades. They witnessed mating rituals and fights, hunting and feeding, the ceding and taking of territory, the creation of families.
Within these pages, characters-both feline and human-come fully alive as we travel with them through the quiet and changing forests of Amur. We travel across time, too, as the fate of the species has been shaped by the history and politics of empires-such as the Qing dynasty's Willow Palisade, which once slowed human settlement, or the later introduction of roads through Russian reserves. The Siberian Tiger Project became the longest-running tiger research initiative; its work continues to guide conservationists today. Jonathan C. Slaght's Tigers Between Empires is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it.
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