Tiger! Tiger! Stories of the Big Cat

About this book

On a stormy night, while thunder rolled and lightning streaked across thesky, Hugh Allen saw a glimpse of a fierce tiger standing in the balcony of hisfarmhouse.Tracking the Pipal Pani tiger for years, Jim Corbett had to finally decide if theregal animal had become a man-eater or not.Ruskin Bond travelled far to see a tiger, and waited and waited, but finally thetiger showed itself in a most unusual way.In Tiger! Tiger! some of the best writers on nature and wildlife describe tigersof various kinds. There are the famous tigers who have lived among us andwho have been studied by conservationists like Valmik Thapar and RaghuChundawat. Tigers who have breathed life into astonishing poems by WilliamBlake and Pratibha Nandakumar. There are foolish tigers and heedlessly proudtigers from folktales and legends. There are also stories of supernatural tigerswho haunt dreams, and who extract revenge.As mysterious as it is important, the tiger lives as much in the forest as in ourcollective imaginations. In this wonderful collection of writings by writers oldand new, get to know the amazing big cat in a whole new way.