The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

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18 “He is. But he will still be hunted for all that. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is no ...

Markov and Pochepnya were one and the same, it still had to be confirmed, and this was ...

As the men pored over the White Book, Andrei Pochepnya’s last moments became as clear as if ma ...

tiger needs to make in order to subdue a human being. A tiger’s jaws can exert roughly a thousand ...

juvenile Amur tiger and a full-grown Ussurian boar. The tiger, though half the size of the boar ...

absence of Pochepnya. The sight of those empty clothes was something none of these men was fully prepared fo ...

jerked it aside, and hurtled onto its target. The shredded collar told the rest: there was no further resistan ...

his right shoulder. The target is the hardest kind: head-on and airborne, an arcing blur of fire and ice, b ...

that different from listening to literature majors deconstruct a short story. Both are sorting through minut ...

habits; follow it in order to get a feel for where it is going; and then, in effect, read ahead and wait ...

Khobitnov found the end of a tiger trail not far from Luchegorsk. The subsequent encounter gave him the dist ...

is strewn with polished beach stones among which stands the bleached carcass of a driftwood tree. In it ...

to the Far East in 1890, “but God has not supplied the artists.”^4 One has the sense that Anatoli Khobitno ...

Disarmed and desperate, Khobitnov swung his right fist, but the tigress simply caught it like a dog snapping ...

site immediately and the tigress charged them as well. After wounding her, the inspectors tracked her, only ...

19 Mountains are the more beautiful After the sun has gone down And it is Twilight. Boy, Watch out for tigers, no ...

the tiger, hunting, eyes alight. Stepping gingerly over the ice and plowing through the drifts, there ...

when it was virtually roadless and thick with game. “Children who are born here are like wolf cubs ...