Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction

Compelling, [a] well designed book... an impressive addition to recent literature on big cat conservation in spare, economical prose -- Jonathan Guthrie * Financial Times * You sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavour of the desperately remote towns... encounters are soaked in adrenaline... this book does offer that rarest and happiest of things in the world of nature conservation: a success story -- James McConnachie * The Times * Slaght’s evocative book tells the remarkable story of a three decade-long scientific collaboration * Telegraph Greatest Books of 2025 * Inspiring, compelling... bristling with detail and feeling... we become as wedded to the fortunes of the cats – proud Olga, brave Severina, orphaned Zolushka – as we do to the people who have dragged them back from the brink, one individual at a time... a timely reminder of what collaboration across borders can achieve -- Adam Weymouth * New Scientist * Fascinating and important... Slaght vividly evokes this astonishing landscape... a beautiful demonstration of how conservation efforts depend on local communities and political will -- Ruth Padel * Literary Review * The remarkable and enthralling story of the majestic Amur tiger... this is a story that gives us hope in the possibility of living alongside, reviving and protecting the natural world -- Caroline Sanderson * Bookseller * A captivating account of the Siberian Tiger Project, a multi-decade collaborative effort among American and Russian scientists to study and protect Siberian tigers... Slaght sketches an empathetic portrait of these intrepid researchers as well as the imperiled creatures they studied... [Slaght] brings their stories to life on the page with vivid detail and suspense * Publisher's Weekly * Vivid and captivating -- Caroline Eden * Engelsberg Ideas * Gripping stuff. A nail-biting adventure that really matters -- Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild A huge adventure at the frontiers of conservation, a whole hidden world, meticulously described, poised on the very edges of the wild and repeatedly made searingly alive by the majestic animals at its heart -- Adam Nicolson, author of Bird School