Tiger : A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

English

ISBN: 0307268934

EAN: 9780307268938

Category: Sports & Recreation / Hunting

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 08/24/2010

Synopsis: The hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russias Far East. When Yuri Trush was called in to investigate an attack by a Siberian tiger, what he found was unlike anything hed ever encountered. Nothing remained of the victim but stumps of bone protruding from his boots. Even more chilling was the evidence that this attack had been carefully orchestrated, as if the tiger was seeking revenge. Before long, the beast struck again, and Trush, leader of a tiger conservation unit, found himself forced to hunt this animal through the brutal cold of a Siberian winter, becoming intimately acquainted with the tigers history, motives, and unique method of attack-until their harrowing final encounter. John Vaillant recreates these astonishing events against the backdrop of Russiarss most remote frontier, a place where the native peoples worship tigers but poachers threaten the species survival. He describes the historic collisions between Chinese and Russian settlers (trappers, thieves, deserters, and exiles), and the struggles of their descendants, who, in the chaotic aftermath of perestroika, turn to poaching to survive-in this case with deadly consequences. A haunting, gripping exploration of predators and prey, and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal increasingly threatened by interaction with humans. From the Hardcover edition.

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Tiger : A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.31 inches

Width: 6.59 inches

Length: 9.53 inches

Weight: 23.17 oz

Pages: 352