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Tigers In Red Weather
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Tigers In Red Weather
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ruth Padel
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:448 | Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 131 |
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Category/Genre | Travel writing |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780349116983
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Classifications | Dewey:599.756 |
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Illustrations |
Integrated: 4, int b/w
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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Imprint |
Abacus
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Publication Date |
5 October 2006 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger. When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildl
Author Biography
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.
Reviews*'An extraordinary travel-memoir' INDEPENDENT *'Thrilling and surprising ... her prose has an intense, lush quality ... She has an adventurer's intrepid spirit and a poet's eye for detail and ear for dialogue' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *'Fascinating ... I knew next to nothing about tigers before reading this wonderful book. Very informative' LITERARY REVIEW *'Ruth Padel is a wonderful writer and she has produced perhaps the best book ever written on the places where tigers live' EVENING STANDARD 'There are few women writing non-fiction today with such a sophisticated understanding of language, such a nuanced approach to style, and such a brazen willingness to engage with the big issues, personal and political. This is a gripping and informative b
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