The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

on the steppes of western Kazakhstan. His job at a gold mine there had ended, and he was briefly unemployed. An ...

the cause of socialism, but to grasp the coattails of their fathers’ glory in the Great Patriotic War (Worl ...

jeopardize the habitat of tigers, humans, and the game that supports them both. The most valuable timber in t ...

grateful to her until the end of my days.” This, and other prominent articles published around the same t ...

Russian and American big cat biologists took place around a campfire in Idaho. The Americans were doin ...

Railway. The town’s location seems counterintuitive—the train station is twenty minutes away, down a long ...

Vladivostok and four hours down from Khabarovsk, Luchegorsk is a place where no one stops unless they ...

canvas bag, which allows the weapon to breathe, and then hidden in some dry location outside. It was to ...

of large baking pans, hanging under the eaves. Dotted with crude perforations like a giant chees ...

that, in the absence of something so small and so humble, an entire ecosystem—from tigers to mice ...

are: what has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union is a kind of ersatz aristocracy, one ...

attacked with hatchets and knives. When illegal loggers have tried to run him off the road with ...

which may not be open anyway. The total bill for tests, licenses, gun, and ammunition can easily approach ...

other until the policeman finally came to his senses. Trush, understandably, was furious; he was also deafened ...

Trush smiles broadly and spreads his arms like wings, exclaiming, “And the doors flew open!” It is because of ...

4 What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? WILLIAM BLAKE, “The Tyger” THE BADGER AND ...

forest; while doing a routine document check, he discovered that Khomenko’s gun was registered not in his ow ...

virtually unstoppable military truck that is often used in forest work. Its tusks were massive, and ...

stepping from side to side as if searching for a clean sightline. By the time he brought his rifle ...

difficult for Trush, though, would be walking up to that crooked house filled with all those anxious faces, an ...