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Tigers In Red Weather

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.

  • Classification : Travel & Adventure
  • Pub Date : OCT 5, 2006
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 448
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349116983
  • Price : INR 1,050
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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet journalist and broadcaster - and has been shortlisted several times for the Whitbread and T.S. Eliot prizes. She lives in North London with her daughter.

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