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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
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Description for The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Paperback. The gripping true story of the hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia's Far East.. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 x 8pp colour + maps. BIC Classification: 1FCS; 3JJPR; BT; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 276.
**From the author of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winning Fire Weather**
'An unbelievable tale, expertly told' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain
'A superb book ' Daily Mail · 'Masterful . . . mesmerising, rangy and relentless' Sunday Telegraph
A man-eating tiger is hunting villagers in the snowy forests of Far Eastern Russia.
A small team of men and their dogs must hunt the tiger in turn. As evidence mounts, it becomes clear that the tiger's attacks aren't random: it is seeking revenge. Injured, starving and extremely dangerous, the tiger ... Read moremust be found before it strikes again.
As he tracks the tiger's deadly progress, John Vaillant draws an unforgettable portrait of a distant and brutal region, over 5,000 miles from Moscow. In the harsh depths of winter in Primorye, a gripping tale of man and nature unfolds.
'Exciting, memorable - and perfectly, impeccably right . . . a tale of astonishing power and vigour' Simon Winchester, author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne
'Extraordinary . . . a brilliantly told tale of man and nature' New York Review of Books
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Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
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About John Vaillant
John Vaillant is the international bestselling author of The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival and The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. He has written for, among others, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian. He lives in Vancouver.
Reviews for The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
An adventure so heart-thumping, it can feel like a spy thriller. An unbelievable tale, expertly told, with a few paragraphs that I would give my eye teeth to have written. Like its majestic and terrifying subject, John Vaillant's book moves with subtlety and grace, commands a vast terrain - and has the power to shake the observer's soul . . ... Read more. What unfolds, in a richly layered story that partners cunning with sublimity, is a tragedy in several acts and with multiple dimensions . . . The Tiger also counts as a supreme example of true-crime writing driven by wide-angle empathy and compassion. Some readers may choose to shelve it, not among cosy wildlife yarns, but with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
A tale with memorable characters, a beautifully described setting and moments of startling drama . . . Vaillant's research is matched by the elegance of his writing . . . Vaillant is able to empathise so fully with both human and animal protagonists that it is hard to believe he wasn't there . . . This is a remarkable story, exceptionally well told
Tim Souster
Financial Times
This masterful account of the terror, death and grief caused by a man-eating Amur tiger in Russia in 1997 is as mesmerising, rangy and relentless as the creature in question.
Sunday Telegraph
Extraordinary . . . a brilliantly told tale of man and nature
Tim Flannery
New York Review of Books
Few writers have taken such pains to understand their monsters, and few depict them in such arresting prose.
New York Times Book Review
Compelling . . . a superb book - hyper-intelligent, wonderfully well-written, with a great cast, both human and animal, and at its heart, the amazing and truly chilling story of one tiger's winter campaign of murderous revenge
Harry Ritchie
Daily Mail
The structure of Vaillant's nonfiction hunting tale echoes that of Moby Dick, alternating a gripping chase narrative
the search, in the late 1990s, for a man-eating Amur tiger in the Primorye region, on Russia's far eastern border
with dense explanations of the culture and ecology surrounding the chase.
New York Times
This is an altogether different kind of manhunt story . . . . The pursuit culminates in a breathtaking stand-off of man versus cat in a forest clearing - a denouement every bit as explosive and surprising as the raid in Abbottabad earlier this week.
Hampton Sides
Wall Street Journal
Riveting
Washington Post
By all means read Vaillant's magnificent book about the animal: The Tiger offers readers a shiver-inducing portrait of a predator that has been revered - and feared - like no other animal.
San Francisco Chronicle
Brad Pitt has bought the movie rights to The Tiger, but with all due respect to Mr. Pitt, there's no way the movie will match Mr. Vaillant's book.
Washington Times
An affectionate account
TLS
The Tiger is the sort of book I very much like and rarely find. Humans are hard-wired to fear tigers, so this book will attract intense interest.
Annie Proulx, Puliter Prize-winning author of THE SHIPPING NEWS The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting.
Hampton Sides, author of GHOST SOLDIERS This book must be read by everybody who is interested in the conservation of wildlife. It takes you to the Russian wilderness to meet face-to-face with the Siberian tiger.
Temple Grandin, author of ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION An absolutely superb book.
George Schaller, Wildlife Conservation Society & Panthera A masterpiece
Outside
Brilliant
US Library Journal
An instant classic
Calgary Herald
Astoundingly gripping
Toronto Star
Read this fine, true book in the warmth, beside the flicker of firelight. Read it and be afraid. Be very afraid.
Simon Winchester
Globe and Mail
Breathtakingly exciting
Vancouver Sun
A hair-raising tale in which conservation, madness and even murder collide.
Montreal Gazette
Fascinating and compelling plot
Ottawa Citizen
Not so incidentally, if ever a nonfiction author has used the techniques of fiction any better to recount a real-life narrative, it is difficult to imagine who that author would be.
Seattle Times
Part natural history, part Russian history and part thriller; it tells a gripping and gory story of what it's like to stalk - and be stalked by - the largest species of cat still walking the Earth.
National Public Radio (USA)
John Vaillant is a literary shaman.
Quill & Quire
Enthralling
Christian Science Monitor
An extraordinary account of a tracker on the trail of a Siberian man-eating tiger in 1997. Along the way we get a load of tiger facts and a beautiful portrait of a forbidding region. It is a stunning, lovely, lovely book.
Bookseller
Writing in a vigorous, evocative style . . . Vaillant paints a haunting portrait of man's vexed relationship with nature.
Publishers Weekly
An adventure so heart-thumping, it can feel like a spy thriller. An unbelievable tale, expertly told, with a few paragraphs that I would give my eye teeth to have written. Enriched by sparkling sidetracks into nature and history, this enthralling true-crime narrative takes us on a snowbound search not only for a beast but for a motive. Like its superb quarry, Vaillant's book moves with grace and stealth, covers a vast terrain and shakes the observer's soul
Independent
The structure of Vaillant's nonfiction hunting tale echoes that of Moby Dick, alternating a gripping chase narrative
the search, in the late 1990s, for a man-eating Amur tiger in the Primorye region, on Russia's far eastern border
with dense explanations of the culture and ecology surrounding the chase.
New York Times
This masterful account of the terror, death and grief caused by a man-eating Amur tiger in Russia in 1997 is as mesmerising, rangy and relentless as the creature in question.
Sunday Telegraph
This is an altogether different kind of manhunt story . . . . The pursuit culminates in a breathtaking stand-off of man versus cat in a forest clearing - a denouement every bit as explosive and surprising as the raid in Abbottabad earlier this week.
Wall Street Journal
Extraordinary . . . a brilliantly told tale of man and nature
New York Review of Books
The Tiger also counts as a supreme example of true-crime writing driven by wide-angle empathy and compassion. Some readers may choose to shelve it, not among cosy wildlife yarns, but with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Independent
A remarkable story, exceptionally well told.
Financial Times
Few writers have taken such pains to understand their monsters, and few depict them in such arresting prose.
New York Times Book Review
A superb book
hyper-intelligent, wonderfully well-written, with a great cast, both human and animal, and at its heart, the amazing and truly chilling story of one tiger's winter campaign of murderous revenge.
Daily Mail
Riveting
Washington Post
By all means read Vaillant's magnificent book about the animal: The Tiger offers readers a shiver-inducing portrait of a predator that has been revered - and feared - like no other animal.
San Francisco Chronicle
Brad Pitt has bought the movie rights to The Tiger, but with all due respect to Mr. Pitt, there's no way the movie will match Mr. Vaillant's book.
Washington Times
An affectionate account
TLS
The Tiger is the sort of book I very much like and rarely find. Humans are hard-wired to fear tigers, so this book will attract intense interest. The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting. This book must be read by everybody who is interested in the conservation of wildlife. It takes you to the Russian wilderness to meet face-to-face with the Siberian tiger. An absolutely superb book. A masterpiece
Outside
Brilliant
US Library Journal
An instant classic
Calgary Herald
Astoundingly gripping
Toronto Star
Read this fine, true book in the warmth, beside the flicker of firelight. Read it and be afraid. Be very afraid.
Globe and Mail
Breathtakingly exciting
Vancouver Sun
A hair-raising tale in which conservation, madness and even murder collide.
Montreal Gazette
Fascinating and compelling plot
Ottawa Citizen
Not so incidentally, if ever a nonfiction author has used the techniques of fiction any better to recount a real-life narrative, it is difficult to imagine who that author would be.
Seattle Times
Part natural history, part Russian history and part thriller; it tells a gripping and gory story of what it's like to stalk - and be stalked by - the largest species of cat still walking the Earth.
National Public Radio (USA)
John Vaillant is a literary shaman.
Quill & Quire
Enthralling
Christian Science Monitor
An extraordinary account of a tracker on the trail of a Siberian man-eating tiger in 1997. Along the way we get a load of tiger facts and a beautiful portrait of a forbidding region. It is a stunning, lovely, lovely book.
Bookseller
Writing in a vigorous, evocative style . . . Vaillant paints a haunting portrait of man's vexed relationship with nature.
Publishers Weekly
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