Cloth. Condition: Near Fine, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, not price clipped (�17.99). First UK Edition, First Printing - stated First published. with no qualification. Plain signed by author on title page.

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Title: Tigers In Red Weather - Signed First Printing
Publisher: Little, Brown, London
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0316726001
ISBN 13: 9780316726009
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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After a terrible year, the end of a five-year affair and the death of her father, Ruth Padel wants out from normal life and happens across an advert for a trip to India. She visits a tiger reserve - and so begins a remarkable journey and an obsession. She travels across the world, Bhutan to Siberia, China to Sumatra, into jungles and into myths, in search of tigers: the most beautiful, and one of the most endangered, animals in the world. In every jungle, among the snakes, scorpions and animals living their secret lives, she meets "defenders of the wild", scientists, guards and conservationists struggling to protect forest animals from armed poachers, live electrocuting fences, poisoning. As she becomes more passionately interested in her elusive subject, she contemplates the meaning of obsession: where it takes us, how it shapes us. Indeed, it is our obsession with tigers that has brought them to the edge of extinction. Tigers stalk the pages of this book more vividly than in any wildlife programme. Both a captivating piece of natural history and a beautiful piece of travel literature, Tigers in Red Weather is also an absorbing exploration of obsession, and of the human heart.

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Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet, journalist and broadcaster - and the great, great granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She lives in North London with her daughter.

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M&B Books is a partnership between an experienced part-time dealer and an enthusiastic relative newcomer, now with six year's experience, both based in South London, England. Mick McLean has been selling collectable books at markets and Book Fairs in the UK since 1983. He also once exhibitied at the Rocky Mountain Book Fair in Denver, Co. Mick sells mainly Modern First Editions with a crime and mystery focus reflecting his own collecting interests. To complement Mick?s depth of experience, Peter...

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