Tigers In Red Weather

Tigers In Red Weather
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780802718549
ISBN-13 : 080271854X
Rating : 4/5 (54X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tigers In Red Weather by : Ruth Padel

Download or read book Tigers In Red Weather written by Ruth Padel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's opera glasses and Tunisian running shoes, she set off across Asia to ask the question: can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild? Tigers are an "umbrella species", they need everything in the forest to work in tandem: they eat deer, the deer need vegetation, the vegetation has to be pollinated by birds, mammals, rodents and butterflies. If you save the tiger, you save everything else. Today, the 5,000 tigers that still survive in the wild live only in Asia and are scattered throughout 14 countries. Padel says that while tigers will never become extinct-they are too popular for that-they may disappear from the wild. There are as many tigers in cages in the US as there are surviving tigers in the wild. As she travels she meets the defenders of the wild-the heroic scientists, forest guards and conservationists at the frontline, fighting to save tigers and their forests from destruction in the places where poverty threatens to wipe out all wildlife. She also examines her fascination (both as a poet and as the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin) with nature, wildness and survival and in the end, becomes a knowledgeable advocate for the tiger. The result is a beautiful blend of natural history, travel literature and memoir, and a searing, intimate portrait of an animal we have loved and feared almost to extinction.


Tigers In Red Weather Related Books

Tigers In Red Weather
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Ruth Padel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a rema
Catching Tigers in Red Weather
Language: en
Pages: 102
Authors: Andrew Demcak
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Poetry. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice tha
Tigers in Red Weather
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Liza Klaussmann
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-17 - Publisher: Little, Brown

GET EBOOK

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old f
American Comic Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Jeff Morgan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-29 - Publisher: McFarland

GET EBOOK

Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourse
Tiger
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Perseus
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07-06 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

GET EBOOK

A passionate first-person narrative by Valmik Thapar, who has spent most of the last thirty years observing tigers in the wild and fighting to ensure their surv