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Title: Tigers in the Snow
Publisher: North Point Press
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0865475962
ISBN 13: 9780865475960
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good

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No more than a few thousand tigers survive in pockets of Asia, a continent they once roamed far and wide. The largest of them, the Siberian tiger, is today almost entirely confined to the little-populated Russian Far East, a region that may offer the species' best hope for survival. But the implosion of the Soviet Union intensified poaching and habitat depredation, prompting a group of Russian researchers and U.S. wildlife biologists led by Maurice Hornocker to join forces to stave off extinction.

Peter Matthiessen brings to the Siberian tiger the deep knowledge of and feeling for the natural world that have made classics of his previous books. Accompanying researchers into the field, he allows the reader to participate vicariously in the battle for the tiger's future. Along the way, he tells how the species evolved and evokes its crucial, often totemic role in human cultures and mythologies. He has made of the tiger's dilemma a drama-underscored by Hornocker's one-of-a-kind photographs-that conveys powerfully what a loss to our collective imagination the disappearance of these great cats would be.

About the Author

Peter Mathiessen is the author of The Snow Leopard and numerous other works of nonfiction and fiction, most recently Bone by Bone.

Maurice Hornocker is a co-founder of the Siberian Tiger Project, a senior conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, and director of the Hornocker Wildlife Institute

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