Vaillant has written a painstaking portrait of a particular Siberian tiger that appears to have gone rogue, and of the poachers, hunters, and trackers who walk the same stretches of taiga in search of resolution. But this would be a very different story had not the interspecies pact been broken. In this intense chronicle, we learn about an age-old balance between humans and tigers in Russia’s Far East, a sort of code of conduct whereby the two species have lived side by side without conflict for hundreds of years. In almost every other way, however, Vaillant’s book is exceptional.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and SurvivalĪny good thriller has a moment wherein the stalker suddenly becomes the stalked, and John Vaillant’s The Tiger is no exception.
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