The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

21 He who has suffered you to impose on him, knows you.... The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses o ...

ridge at the head of another stream called Svetly (Bright) Creek, there was a cabin belonging to a neighb ...

To say that a tiger is an “outside” animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger ...

tracks on foot, Trush, along with Shibnev, Gorborukov, and Pionka, drove the Kung over to Svetly Creek, wh ...

much out the narrow side windows. Trush sat in the passenger seat of the high two-man cab with Gitta, scan ...

aggrieved. “These people knew we had two corpses on our hands, and yet they went into the forest anyway.” ...

marching style. Shibnev had his slung off his left shoulder, trigger up, and Pionka held his like he was abou ...

supposed to save you at times like this. Those who have done serious tiger time—scientists and ...

If divine intervention occurred, Shibnev was the vehicle: it was he who had been visited with the sudden impu ...

22 No bird flies near, no tiger creeps; alone the whirlwind, wild and black, assails the tree of ...

Pionka fired a final control shot. The tiger was dead, perhaps many times over, and Trush was alive ...

ridge so he could not get through. He then thanked his men and shot triumphal footage of them with the dea ...

never seen by a doctor. They sterilized the wound with vodka. He kept his herrings in for a week ...

day, she said, “I wanted to have it killed again.” Meanwhile, Trush, who had just come as close to deat ...

starting at the paws and working their way toward the center. Although Schetinin had burned dozens of tiger pel ...

white muscle and fangs—was terrifying: an egule in the flesh. The legs, extended, were as long as a man’s. ...

23 Pursuant to the permission for the period December 16th-31st, 1997, an Amur tiger has been killed under ...

Leonid Lopatin has done the same. With no prospects in Sobolonye, Denis Burukhin moved to Luch ...

we’re at the graveyard,” explained Markov’s neighbor Irina Peshkova, “we always visit his grave. We’ll bring ...

man, it was only because the man was aggressive to the tiger: who would like to be wounded—to get a bullet? Th ...