

Tigers in the Snow
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/11/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/11/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Snow Leopard. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974. He was cofounder of the Paris Review and won two National Book Awards, the 2000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 2010 Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression.
Though the writer only made two trips to the Russian far east, each lasting about a week, he managed to write a whole book out of the experience. While that itself would probably be sufficient for a Nat Geo article, consisting of interviews with the locals and wildlife biologists involved in conserv......more
The book provides a glimpse into the history of conservation of the Amur Tiger, along with the allied histories of tiger subspecies across Asia. As some of the other reviews have pointed out, it feels like a text book in a few places. Nevertheless, an interesting read overall.......more
A must read for Tiger Enthusiasts. Peter Matthiessen not only focuses on the Amur aka Siberian Tigers, but also the other extinct and extant Tiger subspecies their Evolutionary history and current distribution etc. Being a fan of Peter Matthiessen's works, I enjoyed this book. If you can tolerate so......more