The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

through history, but one scholar estimated that tigers have killed approximately a million Asians ...

from the mountains of east Tennessee. Caldwell, a Methodist, soon realized that tigers were not on ...

The Koreans were much admired by the Western hunters who encountered them, in large part bec ...

when they get into a sheep pen: they slaughter simply because they can and, in the case of huma ...

When Russians like the Yankovskys went hunting for tigers at the turn of the last century, they would ...

Kruglov died in a freak accident in 2005. After surviving more than forty live tiger captures, not ...

had dreamed of hunting a tiger one day, but when he found his calling in the Far East, he realized that ...

deceptively simple idea: don’t just preserve the species, preserve the entire system in which the spe ...

this collaborative effort so remarkable: as dangerous as it was to be a tiger, it had become just as danger ...

recorded history,” Russian citizens in the late 1930s were now being arrested and executed o ...

Some hard-line Marxists sincerely believed that plants and animals unable to prove their usefulness to ...

There was an investigation into Kaplanov’s death, but there were also complications, made worse by a puz ...

tiger that killed Vladimir Markov was never weighed, but when he recalled it later, Trush’s numb ...

9 Men carry their superiority inside; animals outside. Russian Proverb FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY OF MARKOV’S REMA ...

Ivan Dunkai, it is fair to say, was a latter-day Dersu Uzala—a last link to a time when the native ...

the interpersonal level, as opposed to the communal or the cosmic. Often, it will take the form of a tiger ...

of the tracks and factor them into the grand schematic in his head. “You can read the taiga as a book,” ...

In an effort to express the depth of his obsession, Pikunov cited a Russian proverb usually reserved for wolve ...

Instead of snowshoes, winter travelers here use short, broad traditional skis called okhotniki (“hunters”). ...

doing business in the tiger’s domain; it is a form of tribute, and it has ancient precedents. Ivan Dunkai ...