Tigers in the Snow

Name: Tigers in the Snow
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Matthiessen
ISBN: 9781449801632

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

Synopsis

Author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, national Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen is an accomplished naturalist and one of the most acclaimed writers in the world. This book is a stirring look at the tiger, a magnificent animal that has long fueled human fascination. In critical danger of extinction, only a few thousand of these giant cats remain. Matthiessen's exquisite prose stunningly captures the tigers' dramatic fight to survive.

About Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (1927â€“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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryan

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

Goodreads review by Shreeram MV

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

Goodreads review by Vivek

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