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Tigers in Red Weather (Hardcover)

by Ruth Padel (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition, First Impression edition (23 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316726001
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316726009
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'Tigers in Red Weather describes an extraordinary quest for the tiger in its forest home and in the human imagination. Padel is not a descendant of Charles Darwin for nothing. Her curiosity is daring and rigorous, her language eloquent. This is not only a superb portrait of Asian tiger country, but also of the fears and longings that the tiger creates in human hearts' Helen Dunmore 'Tigers in Red Weather is a beautifully strange and personal travel book, one that might bring Joan Didion or Bruce Chatwin to mind, a book about love and survival that reads like a well-tuned poem. Ruth Padel has never written better, and that's saying something.' Colm Toibin 'I loved the book. But with shock, despair and urgency it zeroes in on the greatest wildlife tragedy and scandal of our times, the tiger's last-ditch battle for survival in the wild. Here are passionate, brutally honest dispatches from that struggle's bloodsoaked front lines' Mark Shand

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'A wonderful book about a wondrous animal'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent writing, powerful images, 28 Aug 2005
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I am an avid reader, and in my own mind I tell myself that I read to make myself a better person. If there's any truth in that, then this book is an example of the power to be gained from reading. I don't know why I chose this book - it called out to me in the ways books can, if you know what I mean. Incredibly difficult to classify, it could be travel writing, memoir, cultural studies, science and environmental studies, or maybe politics. Ruth Padel brings all of these issues together in defence of tigers, and tosses in some poetry and literature as well to produce a feast for the mind. The book is brilliant and moving. The big predators, such as tigers, have limited adaptability and their future existence or otherwise tells us a lot about the health of our environment. But the book goes much further - eliminating the habitat of the big animals won't make us safer; destroying their capacity to survive won't make us wealthier or happier, either. Ultimately their habitat is ours, and our own survival is arguably more closely bound to theirs than we have cared to imagine. The book is beautifully written. It is a joy to read, despite the often crushing truth about the treatment of wildlife. Ruth Padel's poetic strengths bring enthralling descriptive power to her travels and observations. Having written this much, I still feel that I have not done sufficient justice to its passion and warmth. So then, read it and find out for yourself.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars unputdownable beautiful and searing, 6 Nov 2006
By Helen Barlow (Leeds UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tigers in Red Weather (Abacus Books) (Paperback)
A really wonderful and life-changing book. The author takes us right into the jungles wherever the tiger lives - or still lives,just. She shows us about tigers' lives, based on most recent scientific research - in fact, we meet the researchers themselves, in all Asia's jungles. She talks for forest guards protecting tigers against poaching, and villagers living alongside it, the poverty, the problems: tigers eating cows, Chinese dealers wanting to buy bones and skin of these beautiful animals. She also shows us "defenders of the wild", conservaytionists and scientists. She walks with them up cobra-filled volcanoes, talks to them on Bhutanese mountain slopes or Sumatran equatorial forest ridge trails. She kayaks down little rapids in Laos, sleeps in jungles, walks through the taiga of Far East Russia. You can really feel the many different jungles, every leech and every leaf, every snake and wild ox. But she also gives us the ancient symbolism of tigers, how people both in west and east, in Asia where tigrs live, fantasize about its power beauty and sexiness, and want some of that for themselves. You hear local myths and tiger magic - she even has a seance with a tiger shaman in Sumatrta, see shadow plays in Java, court theatre in Laos, South India and the mangrove swamps below Calcutt, all beautifully described. But this book is an inner journey as well as an outer journey: a love story, a sort of flight into disenchantment, played out in pockest of London life. It is a spiritual journey as well as a perfect introduction to the problems and truths of conservation.I wanted to stay in the world of this book long after I finished it. It is really beautifully written, with humour and poise, and very very vivid. Do tigers have a chance, in our world now? I think she would say, yes and no. It is poignant but not depressing, and gives you all the arguments of conservation and why we ned to preserve nature.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Evocative and engagine, 15 Jan 2007
This review is from: Tigers in Red Weather (Abacus Books) (Paperback)
Reading this book will immerse you in jungles, have you checking your legs for leeches, and teach you more about tigers in the modern world than any other I know. Ruth Padel, the great-great-grandaughter of Charles Darwin, spent five years travelling to the last places on earth where tigers live, to learn about them, their conservation, and the people who are involved in their lives and deaths. But this not a dry scientific read littered with statistics; Ruth is a former Chair of the Poetry Society and the language throughout is beautiful, evocative, engaging and often funny. The description of her travels and discoveries teach much about the complexities of conserving a large endangered animal which is valuable both dead and alive. We have known the tiger is in trouble for a long time - this book reveals why the solution is not as simple as we might think and describes the efforts and frustrations of some of the world's leading tiger experts. If you are heading to Asia - for whatever reason - read this book first for a ground-level understanding of jungle life. Highly recommended.
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