Yet it engages the reader on political, socioeconomic, and conservation fronts in order to explain how the stage was set for a deadly showdown. At its core, The Tiger is the story of a desperate poacher who picked the wrong tiger to accost. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the taiga, John Vaillant provides an unforgettable true account of a lethal collision between man and beast in a remote Russian village during the late 1990's. Fearsome strength is at the command of a calculating mind that relentlessly stalks its newest prey: man. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īmazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: Deep in the frigid Siberian wilderness, an Amur tiger hunts. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger Yuri Trush, the lead tracker and the tiger himself. And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold.
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village.
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