The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by:
John Vaillant (author)
It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. To the horrified astonishment of a team of hunters, it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta.Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes...
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It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. To the horrified astonishment of a team of hunters, it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta.Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, and the story becomes a battle for survival between two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself.Culminating in a showdown deep in the Siberian forest, The Tiger is a haunting, spellbinding tale of a hunt to the death; of man and nature in collision; of the ancient relationship between predators and prey; and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal and its increasingly threatened world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307397157 (0307397157)
Publish date: May 3rd 2011
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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...
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