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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant · 2010 · 352 pages
It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. To the horrified astonishment of a team of hunters, it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta.
Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, and the story becomes a battle for survival between two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself.
Culminating in a showdown deep in the Siberian forest, The Tiger is a haunting, spellbinding tale of a hunt to the death; of man and nature in collision; of the ancient relationship between predators and prey; and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal and its increasingly threatened world.
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Ryan Holiday
“Ryan called this account of a man-eating tiger in Siberia 'Holy shit, this book is good.' He praised Vaillant's masterful exploration of Russian psychology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology woven throughout.”↗