{"product_id":"tigers-between-empires-the-improbable-return-of-great-cats-to-the-forests-of-russia-and-china-9781250448767","title":"Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage, The Scientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e Most-Anticipated Book of the Season\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Epic . . . Slaght again shines his scientific-yet-soulful spotline on one of the world's most amazing creatures . . . [A] fascinating survival-revival tale.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Michiela Thuman, \u003ci\u003eThe Minnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe forests of northeast Asia are home to a marvelous range of animals--fish owls and brown bears, musk deer and moose, wolves and raccoon dogs, leopards and tigers. But by the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur River basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell, bringing catastrophe; without the careful oversight of a central authority, poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as these changes arrived, scientists came together to found the Siberian Tiger Project. Led by Dale Miquelle, a moose researcher, and Zhenya Smirnov, a mouse biologist, the team captured and released more than 114 tigers over three decades. They witnessed mating rituals and fights, hunting and feeding, the ceding and taking of territory, the creation of families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin these pages, characters--both feline and human--come fully alive as we travel with them through the quiet and changing forests of Amur. We travel across time, too, as the fate of the species has been shaped by the history and politics of empires--such as the Qing dynasty's Willow Palisade, which once slowed human settlement, or the later introduction of roads through Russian reserves. The Siberian Tiger Project became the longest-running tiger research initiative; its work continues to guide conservationists today. Jonathan C. Slaght's \u003ci\u003eTigers Between Empires\u003c\/i\u003e is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan C. Slaght\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250448767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan C. Slaght\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eOwls of the Eastern Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction and was long-listed for the National Book Award. He is the regional director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Temperate Asia Program, where he oversees strategic conservation planning in China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Russia, and Central Asia. He published an annotated translation of \u003ci\u003eAcross the Ussuri Kray\u003c\/i\u003e by Vladimir Arsenyev and cotranslated \u003ci\u003eWinter Ecology of the Amur Tiger \u003c\/i\u003eby A. G. Yudakov and I. G. Nikolaev. His work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, and on the BBC and NPR. He lives in Minneapolis.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jonathan C. Slaght \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67804835872925,"sku":"9781250448767","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_9c03ec1a-3c8f-4389-b33b-280e52a719f9.jpg?v=1794384711","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/tigers-between-empires-the-improbable-return-of-great-cats-to-the-forests-of-russia-and-china-9781250448767","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}