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...
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...
The Tiger is an immensely fascinating study of tigers in the taiga of Siberia, focusing closely on the true-life drama of a man-eating tiger that terrorized the area in 1997. Delving deeply into the psychology, political and socio-economic factors of the humans who populated the region, Mr. Vaillant...
Fascinating, riveting, richly layered narrative nonfiction set in the taiga of the Russian Far East. Besides telling a compelling story, the author delves into the evolution, biology, and behavior of tigers, their cultural significance, conservation, poaching, Russian history, ethnic minorities in R...
Fearful symmetry indeed. There are scenes in the beginning of this book that will give you chills. A tiger has killed a man and a group of investigators are on the scene. Vaillant describes the remnants of the victim as the group very carefully follows the trail of carnage, seeing what has been lef...
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