The Great Soul of Siberia

For twenty years, Park has spent the summers tracking the rare and regal Siberian tiger through Russia's eastern wilderness, and for each of those twenty winters he has hidden himself in tiny underground bunkers waiting, sometimes for weeks or months, for a glimpse of the big cats roaming through their territory. His memoir paints a fascinatingly detailed portrait of the tigers' habits and intelligence and of the threats they face from poachers and lost habitat, while at the same time sharing a compellingly humble philosophy of patience. "To see a tiger you must stay in one spot," he writes. "You must become a tree on a slope."