Jonathan C Slaght
@jonathanslaght.com
Author. Tigers Between Empires (2025). Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020, Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PEN America winner, Nat Book Award longlist). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org. Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
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Jonathan C Slaght
@jonathanslaght.com
· Aug 22
"a captivating account....vivid detail and suspense."
Nice review of "Tigers Between Empires" (November 4 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social) at @publisherswkly.bsky.social: www.publishersweekly.com/9780374610982 📚💙🐅
Nice review of "Tigers Between Empires" (November 4 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social) at @publisherswkly.bsky.social: www.publishersweekly.com/9780374610982 📚💙🐅
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Feeling rather chuffed with my American version of #TigersBetweenEmpires brought all the way to London by @jonathanslaght.com. Thank you!
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Feeling rather chuffed with my American version of #TigersBetweenEmpires brought all the way to London by @jonathanslaght.com. Thank you!
signed some tiger and owl books across London today, including @waterstones.bsky.social and @hatchards.bsky.social!
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
signed some tiger and owl books across London today, including @waterstones.bsky.social and @hatchards.bsky.social!
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Jonathan C. Slaght’s beautifully wrought TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES chronicles how American and Russian scientists shared their talents and ignored their differences to protect the magnificent Amur tiger.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Jonathan C. Slaght’s beautifully wrought TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES chronicles how American and Russian scientists shared their talents and ignored their differences to protect the magnificent Amur tiger.
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It’s finally here in Madrid! Can’t wait to start reading this new book tonight.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It’s finally here in Madrid! Can’t wait to start reading this new book tonight.
@jonathanslaght.com
@jonathanslaght.com
Admiring the Penguin UK edition of my tiger book with a pint of IPA created by Iron Maiden
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Admiring the Penguin UK edition of my tiger book with a pint of IPA created by Iron Maiden
With co-guests @drjuliashaw.bsky.social and Juhea Kim this morning after speaking with @adamrutherford.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week in London.We talked tigers, environmental crime, and the power of art to change minds
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
With co-guests @drjuliashaw.bsky.social and Juhea Kim this morning after speaking with @adamrutherford.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week in London.We talked tigers, environmental crime, and the power of art to change minds
I didn't have to put @johnvaillant.bsky.social's FIRE WEATHER facing out at Waterstones Victoria bookshop in London...it was already like that!
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I didn't have to put @johnvaillant.bsky.social's FIRE WEATHER facing out at Waterstones Victoria bookshop in London...it was already like that!
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An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
This was a great conversation!
Loving Start the Week today (10 Nov 25). Excellent panel of diverse but convergent views on the biodiversity crisis.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This was a great conversation!
coming up in one hour: I'm live on BBC4 Start of the Week in London! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi
Jonathan Slaght, Juhea Kim and Julia Shaw in conversation with Adam Rutherford.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
coming up in one hour: I'm live on BBC4 Start of the Week in London! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
had a pint in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub today, rebuilt in 1667, after the London Fire. Dickins drank here
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
had a pint in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub today, rebuilt in 1667, after the London Fire. Dickins drank here
in London....going live on Times Radio in about twenty minutes!
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
in London....going live on Times Radio in about twenty minutes!
wonderful time talking "Tigers Between Empires" at The Museum of Russian Art in #Minneapolis last night! A packed house with a sold out crowd of 144. The book is now on sale and you should buy it
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
wonderful time talking "Tigers Between Empires" at The Museum of Russian Art in #Minneapolis last night! A packed house with a sold out crowd of 144. The book is now on sale and you should buy it
Not even the Minnesota deer opener can get in the way of Tigers Between Empires
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Not even the Minnesota deer opener can get in the way of Tigers Between Empires
Tigers Between Empires is a Pick of the Season at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Oregon!
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tigers Between Empires is a Pick of the Season at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Oregon!
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if you're in town this weekend for the Twin Cities Book Festival & are seeking a book event Friday night, come see me talk about magnificent tigers, dirty biologists, & a 700-km wall made of planted trees. All at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis. 7pm start, 6pm tea. Book signing to follow!
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
if you're in town this weekend for the Twin Cities Book Festival & are seeking a book event Friday night, come see me talk about magnificent tigers, dirty biologists, & a 700-km wall made of planted trees. All at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis. 7pm start, 6pm tea. Book signing to follow!
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Our Non Fiction Book of the Month in November is Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from extinction - the remarkable conversation story of one the world's most iconic animals by renowned wildlife biologist and author @jonathanslaght.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our Non Fiction Book of the Month in November is Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from extinction - the remarkable conversation story of one the world's most iconic animals by renowned wildlife biologist and author @jonathanslaght.com
some photos from the launch of Tigers Between Empires earlier this week at The Explorers Club in New York!
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
some photos from the launch of Tigers Between Empires earlier this week at The Explorers Club in New York!
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Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.
VIDEO: Day care teacher detained by ICE agents on Chicago’s North Side
A day care teacher was taken into ICE custody Wednesday morning at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
review of my tiger book by @adamweymouth.bsky.social in New Scientist! "Slaght...is a wonderful guide, his descriptions of this unique landscape bristling with detail & feeling. As I read, I ached to be there, where cliffs forested with Korean pine and oak meet the ocean."
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New book tells compelling tale of the fight to save the Siberian tiger
The battle to save the magnificent but endangered Amur tiger detailed in Jonathan Slaght's Tigers Between Empires is an inspiring look at what collaboration across borders can achieve, finds Adam Weym...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
review of my tiger book by @adamweymouth.bsky.social in New Scientist! "Slaght...is a wonderful guide, his descriptions of this unique landscape bristling with detail & feeling. As I read, I ached to be there, where cliffs forested with Korean pine and oak meet the ocean."
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this is tomorrow! If you will be in the Twin Cities would love to see you there. tmora.org/event/an-eve...
#minneapolis #booksky #tiger
#minneapolis #booksky #tiger
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
this is tomorrow! If you will be in the Twin Cities would love to see you there. tmora.org/event/an-eve...
#minneapolis #booksky #tiger
#minneapolis #booksky #tiger
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and to tide you over between the two episodes, enjoy @jonathanslaght.com's "Owls of the Eastern Ice," written by another strigiformologist and a former student of Rocky! I read a passage from his book in this episode 🦉
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
and to tide you over between the two episodes, enjoy @jonathanslaght.com's "Owls of the Eastern Ice," written by another strigiformologist and a former student of Rocky! I read a passage from his book in this episode 🦉
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TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES by @jonathanslaght.com is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. bit.ly/3JEAMal
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES by @jonathanslaght.com is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. bit.ly/3JEAMal