The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Product Information

Several different species were represented and their trails overlaid each other so that, at first, it was hard to sort them out. Uncovers the natural history of the tiger, showing how the decline of its natural habitat and relentless pressure from poachers and farmers have turned a naturally retiring, solitary creature into an aggressive, man-eating predator. Tucked into the southeast corner of Russia by the Sea of Japan, it is a thickly forested and mountainous region that combines the backwoods claustrophobia of Appalachia with the frontier roughness of the Yukon. This book is of interest to the wide audience who admires this wonderfully vital, yet highly endangered species. The only people who benefit from it now are loggers, poachers, and smugglers- pretty much the only people around who can afford a vehicle.

Contrary to popular belief it is the tiger, not the lion, who is the true king of the jungle: a male Siberian tiger can grow to almost three and a half metres in length and weigh more than 300 kilograms. This inimitable picture book is perfect for reading aloud, or for small children to read to themselves time and again.Bush was a cop, and tiger attacks were beyond his purview; however, if there was a body, he was required to witness it.

He also studied karate, aikido, and knife handling; in these, his rangy build works to his advantage because his long reach makes it nearly impossible to get at him. Driving innovation to use wood in smarter ways by designing all products from the very beginning to be reused, refurbished, remanufactured, and eventually recycled. Their regular spacing indicated a walking pace; they led into the forest, directly toward the crows. I found those detours fascinating and enriching though - whether they were about the culture, ancient and modern, of the remote Primorye region, or about the dark social effects of pre- and post-perestroika culture in the area, or about the various characters: principled, unprincipled, hard-working, dedicated or feral who populate the book. The water in the kettle is certainly frozen, but the stove is thinly walled and soon it will glow fiercely against the cold and dark, just as his own body is doing now.

This was not the kind of weightlifting one is likely to see in the Olympics; what Trush was doing looks more like a contest devised by bored artillerymen during the Napoleonic Wars.

Mixing adventure, social history, and animal psychology, John Vaillant’s The Tiger focuses on the killing of Vladimir Markov to tell a much larger story about the long, complicated, and sometimes terrifying relationship between humans and tigers. The snow wasn’t deep and, under those conditions, a tiger could cover forty yards in about four seconds.The pursuit culminates in a breathtaking stand-off of man versus cat in a forest clearing - a denouement every bit as explosive and surprising as the raid in Abbottabad earlier this week. The men, too, can sense a potency around them—something larger than their own fear, and they glance about, unsure where to look. It is safe to say that nothing in their experience could have prepared them for what they found there.