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Tigers in Red Weather. Signed Pre-publication copy.
by PADEL, RUTH:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Little, Brown. 2005 1st edition.. 6.0 x 9.5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper(dw; NOT price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Author’s neat inscription “Ruth Padel. Pre-Publication on 2nd June ‘05 in Hay, in sunlight.” Else a very clean and tight copy. 429pp. With maps and b/w illustrations. After a terrible year, the end of a five-year affair and the death of her father, Ruth Padel wants out from normal life and happens across an advert for a trip to India. She visits a tiger reserve - and so begins a remarkable journey and an obsession. Both a captivating piece of natural history and a beautiful piece of travel literature, Tigers in Red Weather is also an absorbing exploration of obsession, and of the human heart.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85421
- Title
- Tigers in Red Weather. Signed Pre-publication copy.
- Author
- PADEL, RUTH:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown. 2005 1st edition.
- Keywords
- FOREIGN TRAVEL::Far East RUTH padel, tigers, red, weather, obsession, India, natural history, signed, pre-publication, first, dustwrapper,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- Spine
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