The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

desperation, but also extraordinary presence of mind: Markov died while trying to fit a small, slippery ...

Those people bring the most harm to tigers. The situation today is very different from the situation ten ...

me alone. I had made arrangements to get a horse, but then had a change of heart: I can’t get a horse ...

attention, appeared content and relaxed until he spotted Trush, at which point his demeanor changed suddenly. Li ...

Pionka’s view, this tiger was an Amba, and so may have existed beyond mortal containment. Whether ther ...

In 2000, Vladimir Schetinin, Inspection Tiger’s founding chief, was forced into retirement, and with him ...

moments in their lives. The thought of it, and the demise of it, are bittersweet for Trush, and ...

killed. Some things have changed in Primorye, but one thing hasn’t and that is the hazardous business of ...

Epilogue AS OF 2008, THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY tigers living in Primorye, southern ...

Making this situation more upsetting, especially for conservationists, is the fact that this cascading tr ...

cross-country, and foraging with hand tools. The same is true of tigers: once they have been habi ...

tigers. From where they crouch on the sidewalk, a stone’s throw from the central train station, it is ...

wealthy and, increasingly, the middle class have sought products that are exotic, precious, and rare, ...

grows in russet waves on crags above the scoured plain, but down below, as far as the eye can see, spread t ...

averages recorded over the previous decade—has been attributed to several factors, but chief among ...

and the bulk of those taking place today is one of consciousness: this time, however passively they may occ ...

propose the creation of jointly managed wildlife preserves on the Russian-Chinese border. If this was ...

China’s Wandashan Mountains in Heilongjiang Province, and the possibilities of a preserve are being exp ...

chickens. After that, you must go to rats and mice to find a comparably numerous species. In terms ...

Acknowledgments Sine qua non is not usually used in the plural, but in this case, it is the only way to desc ...