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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre ... [the] conservation thriller" (Nature).
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature’s most deadly predator.
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature’s most deadly predator.
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McDermott
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“Narrative nonfiction with lessons spanning politics, evolutionary biology, zoology, and sociology all told through a thrilling man eating tiger storyline. Extremely well written and organized.”Pris
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Beautifully writtenDescriptive writingFast-pacedSuspensefulRealistic settingAnimal abuseViolence
Kris
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Jonathan Crites
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“I’ve been traveling so much, it took a while to finish this one. A well written true-to-life account of the hunt for a man-eater in Far East Russia. But much more than that, it is also a natural history of the Tiger, man’s history with the Tiger, the devastating effects of perestroika and the effort to keep these cats alive. Recommended.”
Dave Hymas
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“This was like reading a David Foster Wallace series of footnotes with all the detours the author took the reader on—from the history of Stalin and the Soviet Union to the history of Sino-Soviet relations to the history of big cats in Africa and on and on—all of which just muddled the narrative story. Would have worked better as a long New Yorker article focused on the actual tiger in the story.”
About John Vaillant
JOHN VAILLANT’s acclaimed, award-winning non-fiction books, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, were #1 national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar’s Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.
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