Great Soul of Siberia

In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger

AvSooyong Park

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Engelska, 2016

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The gripping account of one man's determination to discover, film, and understand one of the rarest and most formidable big cats in the world.In The Great Soul of Siberia, renowned tiger researcher Sooyong Park tracks three generations of Siberian tigers living in remote south-eastern Russia. He sets up underground bunkers to observe the tigers, living thrillingly close to these beautiful but dangerous apex predators.Park draws from twenty years of experience and research to focus on the Siberian tigers’ losing battle against poaching and diminishing habitat. Over the two years of his harrowing stakeout, Park’s poignant and poetic observations of the tigers draw a fiercely compassionate portrait of these elusive, endangered creatures.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-01-14
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780008156169
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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Sooyong Park is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has devoted over twenty years to studying and filming Siberian tigers. His groundbreaking tiger research was the subject of the film Siberian Tiger Quest. When not in Siberia, he lives in Seoul, Korea.Based on his philosophy that ‘nature is to be observed, not directed’, his work involves unimaginable patience and a painstaking devotion to becoming part of nature. His profound insights into the natural world and his warm affection for living creatures reveal that animals, like humans, have souls.

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Advance praise for Great Soul of Siberia: 'Sooyong's magical prose led me into little-known and breathtakingly beautiful forests, exposed me to the bitter cold of long winter months, and revealed the secret life of that most mysterious of cats, the Siberian tiger.' Jane Goodall 'A triumph of nature writing; an original and authentic voice from the wilderness.' Jonathan and Angela Scott 'The most intimate, poetic and immersive investigation of the Siberian tiger ever written.' John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Jaguar's Children 'A beautifully patient, deep-textured exploration of an unknown part of the world and its ancient guardian, the majestic Amur tiger, by a wonderfully empathetic naturalist.' Ruth Padel, author of Tigers in Red Weather