The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by:
John Vaillant (author)
A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to...
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A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature’s most deadly predator.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307389046 (0307389049)
ASIN: 307389049
Publish date: May 3rd 2011
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Russia,
Animals,
Canada
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...
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...