The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

There is an unintended courtesy in the winter forest that occurs around pathways of any kind. It takes a ...

time, this would have told him all he needed to know: something big was dead, or dying, and it was bein ...

bloodstained jacket cuff before halting at a patch of bare ground about a hundred yards into the forest ...

Save for the movements of the dog and the men, the forest has gone absolutely still; even the crows have wit ...

no weapons. Trush called his bluff by urging him to fetch his unregistered gun from hiding. “This is no ...

“around forty yards.” The snow wasn’t deep and, under those conditions, a tiger could cover forty yard ...

2 “You’re from Russia?” “Yes, from Russia.” “I’ve never been there at all.” ANTON CHEKHOV, From Siberi ...

where oaks have a diameter of one sagene [over six feet]. Some other examples of gigantic vegetation ...

most of the Amur tiger’s current range, and about two million people live there. Protruding conspicuously from ...

to the station there may be no platform and the retractable steps might be frozen shut, forcing you to simply h ...

region’s peculiar ecosystem—one that happens to coincide with the northern limit of the tiger’s pan ...

Himalayan black bears build haphazard platforms in wild cherry trees that seem too fragile for the task, ...

Of the six surviving subspecies of tiger, the Amur is the only one habituated to arctic conditi ...

tiger to club its prey to death. And yet, they are also gentle and dextrous enough to catch a fly in ...

launched, they become levers and stabilizers, supporting the larger players. Once the prey is down ...

tiger is the latest, most exquisitely lethal manifestation of this creative impulse. The indigenous peoples of ...

characterization and disarming honesty.* During his journeys, which lasted for months at a time, Arsen ...

“My ... landmarks had vanished.^9 New roads had been made. There were quarry faces, dumps, embankments.... ...

understanding in the forest then—an order. Judging from the following events, this order still exists in some ...

3 But we are what we are, and we might remember Not to hate any person, for all are vicious ROBINSON JEFFERS, ...