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Tigers Forever, High Moon Over the Amazon, Earth from Space, and Medicine's Michelangelo

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By Steve Winter (with Sharon Guynup)
National Geographic, November 2013

National Geographic photographer Steve Winter has made a career out of stalking and capturing the world’s most elusive and endangered big cat. His latest book, Tigers Forever, coauthored with environmental journalist Sharon Guynup, contains the most intimate shots he’s ever taken of the wild feline.

Winter traveled to some of the remotest parts of Asia to bag his quarry. Along the way, he and Guynup chronicle their forays into tiger territory and recount the stories of researchers, park rangers, and conservationists fighting to save the big cats, which number fewer than 3,200 in the wild, from extinction.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Tigers Forever will benefit wild cat-conservation group Panthera’s tiger-conservation ...

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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