There comes at last a moment when the pole is centred in its hole, supported only by the people who surround it, that it becomes clear to some what it means to be Haida – and plain to all how many hands it takes to resurrect a tree. You looked at the star rating, didn't you? Well, there is a reaso...
. . . allow coyotes to seal you into a tanker truck to drive you into the desert, purportedly to reach the other side in only three hours. Tito will never do it again. And I'm telling you: just don't do it. The Jaguar's Children is a book of survival, of living and dying, of family and history...
The Jaguar’s Children John Vaillant, 2015 While attempting to illegally cross the Mexico/U.S. border in a sealed water truck, Hector and the others become trapped when the truck breaks down and the coyotes (the men hired to transport them) take off. Slowing dying of thirst, Hector’s one hope is ...
Absolutely fascinating book. The Primorye region of the Soviet Union is like an anomaly, existing at the confluence of arboreal forest and subarctic environments. It’s at the intersection of four distinct bio-regions. It’s home to a huge variety of species not found elsewhere: sturgeon the size of...
Look at this beautiful Golden Spruce: https://www.google.be/search?q=golden+spruce&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=b0I7Utm0HtCShgfE0oHIAg&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1318&bih=653&dpr=1.2#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=7PWFLQ8SzlyplM%3A%3BeoQ_5rnoCPH1eM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ftest.goldenspruce.com%252Fwp-content...
Awesome on so many levels...As a real-life thriller set in a remote wild area (the Russian Far East)...As a modern history of the Russian (& Soviet) state and people (alongside China, Korea and Japan), with the human and ecological impacts of state policies and the lack thereof...As a study of wildl...
THE TIGER is a fascinating, engrossing thriller about a lesser-known (at least to me) part of Russia and the people and animals trying to stake out an existence there. The story follows the hunt for an Amur tiger who has killed a poacher. Author John Vaillant goes into remarkable detail about the ci...
[b:The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival|7624594|The Tiger A True Story of Vengeance and Survival|John Vaillant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320490797s/7624594.jpg|10109525] has a great piece of advice if you ever find yourself in the wilds… don’t screw with a tiger. (I would have said...
Like the beast this book is about, The Tiger is patient. It stalks ahead with care and diligence as it learns about its prey, and each step forward the tension builds until the target is reached and then it pounces with devastating fury.The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaill...
A tiger goes man-eater and terrorizes a remote Siberian village. Can Yuri Trush and his men end the tiger's bloody reign of terror or join its long list of victims?It sounds like the teaser for a trashy thriller but this story really happened. The Tiger is the story of a rogue tiger and it's man-e...
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