Tigers In Red Weather

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A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger.

When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildl

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*'An extraordinary travel-memoir' INDEPENDENT *'Thrilling and surprising ... her prose has an intense, lush quality ... She has an adventurer's intrepid spirit and a poet's eye for detail and ear for dialogue' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *'Fascinating ... I knew next to nothing about tigers before reading this wonderful book. Very informative' LITERARY REVIEW *'Ruth Padel is a wonderful writer and she has produced perhaps the best book ever written on the places where tigers live' EVENING STANDARD 'There are few women writing non-fiction today with such a sophisticated understanding of language, such a nuanced approach to style, and such a brazen willingness to engage with the big issues, personal and political. This is a gripping and informative b

Author Bio

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet, journalist and broadcaster -- and the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She lives in North London with her daughter.