TIGER FIRE (PB)

The tiger has captured the
imagination of human beings from the beginning of recorded history. It has
been feared, worshipped, admired, hunted, studied, photographed, written
about, immortalized in art and poetry and has enthralled king and commoner
alike. Tiger Fire celebrates this magnificent predator by bringing together
the very best non-fiction writing, photography and art on the Indian tiger
from the first written description of a real-life encounter with the animal
by the Mughal Emperor Babur in the sixteenth century to photographs and
studies of the last of the species surviving in the wild today.Conceived and
edited by the world?s foremost authority on the Indian tiger, Valmik Thapar
(who has also contributed many pieces and photographs to this volume), the
book?s contributors are drawn from an array of renowned naturalists, writers,
photographers and tiger enthusiasts down the centuries including Babur,
Akbar, Fran?ois Bernier, Thomas Roe, R.G. Burton, Walter Campbell, Thomas
Williamson, F.W. Champion, Kesri Singh, Jim Corbett, Hugh Allen, Richard
Perry, Arjan Singh, George Schaller, Kenneth Anderson, M. Krishnan, Peter
Jackson, Fateh Singh Rathore, Kim Sullivan, Tejbir Singh, Jaisal and Anjali
Singh, Aditya ?Dicky? Singh, K. Ullas Karanth, Dharmendra Khandal and
Dhritiman Mukherjee. Culled from over a million words (both published and
unpublished) on the animal and several thousand photographs, the accounts and
pictures assembled in this book show us the tiger in extraordinary and
compelling detail.The book contains stories and reports of tiger hunts,
attacks on humans by tigers, fights between the tiger and other animals such
as the leopard, the bison, the wild dog, the boar and the elephant,
narratives about tigers rearing their young, finding mates and wild tigers
forging bonds with humans.Using his unequalled knowledge of wild tigers,
derived from almost forty years of observing them in their natural habitat,
Valmik Thapar has put together the most ambitious book ever published on the
tiger in India. A lasting testimonial to an animal that has dazzled the human
race, Tiger Fire will be treasured by everyone who possesses it.