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Jonathan C Slaght

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Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020): Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PENAmerica winner, Nat.BookAward longlist. New book: TIGERS (11/25). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org (China/Mongolia/Russia/CentAsia/Afghanistan). 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 📚💙🐅

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 45m

hello @tigur.com - please send an address to mail this book by end of day (Oct 13), otherwise I will pick another recipient tomorrow! It is packed and ready to ship.

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 3d

Hey @tigur.com this is yours! DM me a good mailing address and I'll ship today or tomorrow

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 11d

***giveaway*** this signed, Advance Reader Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES (pub date 4 Nov 25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social)! Like/Reskeet to enter! US addresses only! Will pick random winner on Thurs, 9 Oct 25 and ship quick. 🐅 #booksky

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 22h

at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis, wearing a collared shirt and everything, for the Minnesota STEM Book Fest, held in partnership with The Thinking Spot bookshop. Signing TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES and OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE 12:30-1:30. Stop by! 🌍 #booksky

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 23h

update! Copies of my new TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES will be on sale *today* at the Bakken Museum's MN STEM Book Fest. I am signing from 12:30-1:30. Stop by to pick one up before anyone else! #Minneapolis #Booksky 🌍

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 2d

I've started doing the same... @theonion.com is essential reading these days

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 3d

hey #Minneapolis: this Sunday I'm on a panel at the MN STEM Book Fest at the Bakken Museum! Fest itself is free but panel attendance is ~$10. I will also be signing owl books if you want to say hello. Hope to see you there! 🌍

A panel announcement with four people smiling. One has a cat.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 3d

Hey @tigur.com this is yours! DM me a good mailing address and I'll ship today or tomorrow

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 11d

Bald, bearded man clutching a book with a tiger on the cover

Cover page of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, signed and stamped by a bald, bearded man

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 3d

Yes, I volunteered on the project starting in 2000, and took part in activities or was otherwise adjacent through 2019, the last time I was in Russia. But it seemed weird to inject myself into the narrative - that seemed like a distraction.

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 4d

thanks Titus! The adventures are of others, not my own. It's a story of tiger conservation going back thirty years; the characters are people I know but I am not in the book.

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 4d

Dear London! I'll be at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Tuesday, November 11 to talk tigers and sign books. Would love to see you there! Ticket info below 🐅

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tigers-bet...

Tigers Between Empires: by Jonathan C. Slaght

This is a Stanfords, London event

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 4d

every flight!

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 4d

thank you! Hope you like it!

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 4d

first copy is here! looks great! Comes out November 4th, please preorder! @bookshop.org link: bookshop.org/p/books/tige...

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

Heading to this event tonight at @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social ... my kids grew up on the excellent Dory Fantasmagory books & looking forward to seeing friend Abby Hanlon interact with a crowd! #booksky

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

Congratulations, @meghamaj.bsky.social !!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d

This dystopian video is previewing a violent takeover, not a targeted law enforcement action. It's insane.

Trump is militarizing our cities to STOKE violence. Not to reduce it. These are the tried and true tactics of authoritarians - plain and simple.

Secretary Kristi Noem on X: "Chicago, we’re here for you. https://t.co/BZdLgNfiqu" / X

Chicago, we’re here for you. https://t.co/BZdLgNfiqu

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 7d

Twin Cities Marathon, a good time had by all

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Racket @racketmn.com · 7d

Touring, rating, and appreciating the local porcelain thrones. racketmn.com/the-most-sty...

The Most Stylish, Disturbing, and Mysterious Toilets in the Twin Cities - Racket

Touring, rating, and appreciating the local porcelain thrones.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

amazing!

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

yes indeed!

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

I fear my day is lost: moved on to Roy Orbison's Black & White Night from 1987. Insane backing band incl. Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, kd lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.F. Souther, T Bone Burnett. So good

Cover of Roy Orbison's Black & White Night album

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

supposed to be doing chores, instead standing in my living room being hit by Big Time, cranked up to eleven. What an album, what a voice

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 10d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 9d

locally extinct in southern Spain. They still live in many places (just saw some in Mongolia). Not sure why they went locally extinct in southern Spain.

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 9d

they have not been there for 70-130 years.

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 9d

"bearded vultures...disappeared from southern Spain somewhere between 70 and 130 years ago. However, some of their nests still remain ... thanks to their strategic placement and solid construction....[the team performed] archaeological surveys in 12 of those long-abandoned nests."