Paperback The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival Book

ISBN: 0307389049

ISBN13: 9780307389046

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Name: Powerful, insightful, thrilling
Item: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Rating: 5
Author: Bev Ross

By John Vaillant

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Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A gripping story of man pitted against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia's far east opens up a new genre ... [the] conservation thriller" (Nature).

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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0307389049

ISBN13:9780307389046

Release Date:May 2011

Publisher:Vintage

Length:352 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Related Subjects

Adventure Animals Biological Sciences Cats, Lions & Tigers Conservation Ecotourism Fauna Hunting Hunting & Fishing Mammals Nature Nature & Ecology Specialty Travel Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation Wildlife

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 2 stars
Rare book that I just couldn't get through

By Steve, December 30, 2023 Verified Purchase

Had I known that the book was about the exploits of men who loved to murder tigers I never would have purchased this book. The book is well written, don't get me wrong. The writer is obviously a talented researcher and writer, but the content, which includes one mass tiger killing after another literally made my stomach turn. I actually read about a third of the book as I was interested in the geography and history, hoping...

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Rated 5 stars
Powerful, insightful, thrilling

By Bev Ross, June 14, 2020

I read this book more than once. Each time more layers of the vivid characters and their roles and experience of an epic tragedy reveal how nature can be a terrible adversary and how people can interact in ways that are profoundly courageous. A beautiful masterpiece.

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Rated 5 stars
A Winner X 3

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 18, 2010

The Tiger is a success on three fronts. For one it is a thriller telling the true story of a Siberian tiger turned man hunter and eater and the hunt to destroy it. Secondly it is a rich tract describing the role of the tiger in nature and in relation to man coupled with a plea for its protection. Thirdly we are given a comprehensive description of life as it is (and was) in the far east of Russia. The story of the man eater...

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Rated 5 stars
A page-turning, mesmerizing read.

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 30, 2010

I have read suspense thrillers with less adrenaline than John Vaillant's THE TIGER. The true story of a man-eating tiger and its relationship with the land and people around it, the book is what page-turners are supposed to be. The fact that it's a true story is merely window-dressing. The book opens up with Yuri Trush, who leads a Russian unit that deals with tiger-related crimes (usually poaching), arriving on the scene...

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Rated 5 stars
What are you waiting for? Grab The Tiger's Tale!

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 29, 2010

The first impact of a tiger attack does not come from the tiger itself, but from the roar, which in addition to being like a loud jet, has an eerie capacity to fill space around it, leaving one unsure where to look. Look no further... you have found one of the best books. Although, the true story of a man-eating tiger that occurred December 1997, in a small Siberian village is very outstanding, in and of itself, there is...

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