
by Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen brings to the Siberian tiger the deep knowledge of and feeling for the natural world that have made classics of his previous books. He has made of the tiger's dilemma not a manifesto but a drama -- underscored by Maurice Hornocker's one-of-a-kind photographs -- that conveys powerfully what a loss to our collective imagination the extinction of these great cats would be.

by Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen brings to the Siberian tiger the deep knowledge of and feeling for the natural world that have made classics of his previous books. He has made of the tiger's dilemma not a manifesto but a drama -- underscored by Maurice Hornocker's one-of-a-kind photographs -- that conveys powerfully what a loss to our collective imagination the extinction of these great cats would be.