Buy this book on-line MATTHIESSEN**, PETER: : TIGERS IN THE SNOWLONDON.THE HARVILL PRESS,2000. ISBN 1860046677X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels, with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan paper-covered boardds; author's black ink impressed initials to front board,black cloth blind-spine with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to same and immaculate coloured world map illustrated endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xviiipp+3-185pp [paginated] includes an inroduction with a section about the photographs by Maurice Hornocker,b/w colour reproduction illustrations,profuse animal colour photographs throughout the text and the book,notes; plus [unpaginated] other fiction and non- fiction titles by author advertising page, half-title page with title page to its reverse,colour photographic frntis,a dedication,epigrams, and 2pp blanks at the rear.See my book ID rja218 - 'THE CLOUD FOREST' by this same author.
No more than a very few thousand tigers survive.They remain in isolated areas of Asia,a continent through which they widely roamed.The largest of the species,the Siberian tiger,is today almost entirely confined to the sparsely-populated Russian far east,a region that may offer the tiger its best hope for survival.But the collapse of the Soviet Union has intensified poaching and the devastation of their habitat,and this has prompted a group of Russian researchers and American wildlife biologists led by Maurice Hornocker to found the Siberian Tiger Project in an effort to prevent their extinction.
In 'Tigers in the Snow' Peter Matthiessen the noted American naturalist and author, brings the deep knowledge of and feeling for the natural world that has made classics of his previous books to bear on the plight of the Siberian tiger.
Matthiessen accompanies members of the project to Siberia,allowing the reader to participate in the battle to protect the future of one of nature's most awesome creatures.He tells the story of the tiger's origin and evolution,evoking at the same time its crucial,often totemic, role in the cultures and mythologies of the peoples who came into contact with it. He has made of the tiger's fate a manifesto and a fascinating drama,which is reinforced by Maurice Hornocker's arresting photographs.This book powerfully conveys what a loss to our collective imagination the extinction of these great cats would be.
Maurice Hornocker is the director of the Hornocker Wildlife Institute at the Unversity of Idaho and co-founder of the Siberian Tiger Project.He is one of the world's foremost authorities on the great vats.
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