- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781802062502
- Length: 512 pages
- Price: £10.99
Tigers Between Empires
The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction
Jonathan Guthrie, Financial TimesCompelling, [a] well designed book... an impressive addition to recent literature on big cat conservation in spare, economical prose
James McConnachie, The TimesYou sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavour of the desperately remote towns... encounters are soaked in adrenaline... this book does offer that rarest and happiest of things in the world of nature conservation: a success story
Telegraph Greatest Books of 2025Slaght’s evocative book tells the remarkable story of a three decade-long scientific collaboration
Adam Weymouth, New ScientistInspiring, compelling... bristling with detail and feeling... we become as wedded to the fortunes of the cats – proud Olga, brave Severina, orphaned Zolushka – as we do to the people who have dragged them back from the brink, one individual at a time... a timely reminder of what collaboration across borders can achieve
Ruth Padel, Literary ReviewFascinating and important... Slaght vividly evokes this astonishing landscape... a beautiful demonstration of how conservation efforts depend on local communities and political will
Dan Vergano, Senior Editor, A Scientific American Favourite Book 2025A heart-in-your-mouth saga that tells the stories—terrifying, riveting and sad—of the adventurer scientists who saved the disappearing Amur tiger. Slaght gives us an inspiring account of a wilderness where brown bears fight tigers and the too-brief geopolitical thaw that reshaped the lives of both man and tiger
Caroline Sanderson, BooksellerThe remarkable and enthralling story of the majestic Amur tiger... this is a story that gives us hope in the possibility of living alongside, reviving and protecting the natural world
Publisher's WeeklyA captivating account of the Siberian Tiger Project, a multi-decade collaborative effort among American and Russian scientists to study and protect Siberian tigers... Slaght sketches an empathetic portrait of these intrepid researchers as well as the imperiled creatures they studied... [Slaght] brings their stories to life on the page with vivid detail and suspense
Chris Hewitt, Minnesota Star Tribune Best Book 2025The ambitious book is... enlivened by the insights of Slaght, whose compassion and curiosity make his book suspenseful and urgent
Caroline Eden, Engelsberg IdeasVivid and captivating
About Jonathan C. Slaght
Jonathan C. Slaght is an expert on endangered species of north Asia. He is the Regional Director of Temperate Asia for the Wildlife Conservation Society and has spent nearly thirty years travelling to and living in the region. His work has featured in The New York Times, BBC World Service, The Guardian, Smithsonian and Audubon. Owls of the Eastern Ice, his first book, was named The Times Nature Book of the Year in 2020.
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