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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Jonathan C. Slaght
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Owls & the Meaning of April
The transition from winter to spring always brings out a curious mixture of emotions in me. For years, April had meant the end of a field season, weeks of cold and discomfort spent with my local colleagues in the Russian woods, sometimes a hundred or more kilometers from the nearest human settlement, sleeping in a […]
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Jonathan Slaght
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Jill's review
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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China:
"A second outstanding book from this author. I hope he writes a third one. "
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Ula Tardigrade's review
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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China:
"I loved Jonathan C. Slaght’s debut about his fieldwork in the Amur region, Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl. His amazement with the natural world and wild creatures is truly contagious. This enthusiasm is also"
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Jared Hamby's review
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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China:
"Another fantastic book from Slaght. Whereas Owls of the Eastern Ice was an exciting pageturner of an adventure story in remote Russia that just happened to be about owls and conservation, this book is a direct history of tiger conservation in Russia."
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Cheryl R.'s review
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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China:
"The frontier of the Russian Far East is a mysterious place inhabited by the Amur Tiger and a fiercely independent people. This book shows how the fall of the Soviet Union and its economic collapse led to a dramatic decline in the Tiger population. Ho"
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| I loved this book. I read an early copy this summer and provided a quote for the back cover: "Lush and heartbreaking, Frostlines lays the Arctic bare to reveal a place of life, beauty, and ancient interdependencies. Neil Shea is both a careful observ ...more | |
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Hi Madison, sorry for taking a year to see this and answer your question. We try as possible to follow individuals but it's tough--they live in pretty inaccessible areas where it's hard to check on them very often, and they are very hard to spot. In
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| This was an interesting read. Given that it's a translation of a manuscript by Dorries well into his twilight years, and largely consisting of snippets he remembers often without context, it can seem a bit disjointed. But this is a part of the world ...more | |
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| I reviewed this for The Atlantic and loved it. My summery: Adam Weymouth "is an uncommon brand of travel writer, weaving natural history with culture and politics....[he] carefully picks at the Gordian knot linking wolves and rural communities, tease ...more | |
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“With a face of wrinkled leather and a ropy
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.” Jonathan C. Slaght |
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“There was a sense of purpose to this work: fish owls were a species that needed a voice, and by teasing out their secrets, we were giving them one.”
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“With a face of wrinkled leather and a ropy
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
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| Goodreads Choice ...: Theresa's 2021 Yearly Challenges | 4 | 194 | Dec 31, 2020 10:20PM | |
| Goodreads Choice ...: January (2021) Monthly Challenge | 27 | 270 | Jan 18, 2021 03:55PM | |
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“With a face of wrinkled leather and a ropy
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
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