{"product_id":"tigers-between-empires-the-improbable-return-of-great-cats-to-the-forests-of-russia-and-china-9780374610982","title":"Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The forests of Northeast Asia are home to a marvelous range of animals--fish owls and brown bears, musk deer and moose, wolves and raccoon dogs, and leopards and tigers. But in the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur River basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell and catastrophe arrived, as poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as these changes arrived, scientists came together to found the Siberian Tiger Project. Led by the moose researcher Dale Miquelle and Zhenya Smirnov, who studied rodents, the team captured and released more than 114 tigers over three decades, witnessed their mating rituals and fights, their hunting and feeding, their ceding and taking of territory, their creation of families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin the pages of Jonathan C. Slaght's \u003ci\u003eTigers Between Empires\u003c\/i\u003e, these characters, both feline and human, come fully alive as we travel with them through the quiet and changing forests of Amur. We travel across time, too, as the species is shaped by the history and politics of empires--like the Qing dynasty's Willow Palisade that once slowed human settlement, or the later introduction of roads through Russian reserves. The Siberian Tiger Project became the longest running tiger research initiative anywhere in the world; its work continues to guide conservationists today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374610982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2025 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan C. Slaght","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51708080750773,"sku":"9780374610982","price":28.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3cc72237-9486-429a-bb4b-226464205965.jpg?v=1757397329","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tigers-between-empires-the-improbable-return-of-great-cats-to-the-forests-of-russia-and-china-9780374610982","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}