The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and SurvivalNATIONAL 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. |
Common terms and phrases
Amba Amur tiger Andrei animals Arseniev baboons bear Bikin River Bikin valley boar Borisova cats China Chinese creatures cubs Danila Zaitsev Denis Burukhin Dersu Dersu Uzala dogs Dvornik East eyes forest Gorborukov hard human hunting Inspection Tiger Ivan Dunkai Khabarovsk Khobitnov Khomenko kind knew Korean Korean pine Krasny Yar Kung Lazurenko lions live logging look Lopatin Luchegorsk Manchuria Markov Markov's cabin meat Mikhail miles Nanai neighbors never Onofreychuk Panchelaza perestroika Pikunov Pionka poachers poaching Pochepnya predators prey Primorye recalled rifle River road Russian Russian Far East Sasha Schetinin Shibnev shooting shot Siberian Tiger Sikhote-Alin Smirnov snow Sobolonye Sokolov Soviet species survive Svetly taiga Takhalo territory thing tiger attacks tiger hunter tiger killed tiger tracks tigress tion took tracks trail tree Trush Udeghe Ussuri Vasily village Vladimir Vladimir Markov Vladivostok walk wild wildlife winter wounded Yankovsky Yuri Trush Zapovednik Zhorkin