Author: Ivan Aramilev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Beyond the Ural Mountain
Author: Ivan Aramilev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Tiger
Author: John Vaillant
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307375277
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. To their horrified astonishment 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 the two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself. As John Vaillant vividly recreates the extraordinary events of that winter, he also gives us an unforgettable portrait of a spectacularly beautiful region where plants and animals exist that are found nowhere else on earth, and where the once great Siberian Tiger - the largest of its species, which can weigh over 600 lbs at more than 10 feet long - ranges daily over vast territories of forest and mountain, its numbers diminished to a fraction of what they once were. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers - even sharing their kills with them - in a natural balance. We witness the first arrival of settlers, soldiers and hunters in the tiger's territory in the 19th century and 20th century, many fleeing Stalinism. And we come to know the Russians of today - such as the poacher Vladimir Markov - who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching for the corrupt, high-paying Chinese markets. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters and how early Homo sapiens may have once fit seamlessly into the tiger's ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator, and the grave threat it faces as logging and poaching reduce its habitat and numbers - and force it to turn at bay. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger is a gripping tale of man and nature in collision, that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the Siberian forest.
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307375277
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. To their horrified astonishment 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 the two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself. As John Vaillant vividly recreates the extraordinary events of that winter, he also gives us an unforgettable portrait of a spectacularly beautiful region where plants and animals exist that are found nowhere else on earth, and where the once great Siberian Tiger - the largest of its species, which can weigh over 600 lbs at more than 10 feet long - ranges daily over vast territories of forest and mountain, its numbers diminished to a fraction of what they once were. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers - even sharing their kills with them - in a natural balance. We witness the first arrival of settlers, soldiers and hunters in the tiger's territory in the 19th century and 20th century, many fleeing Stalinism. And we come to know the Russians of today - such as the poacher Vladimir Markov - who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching for the corrupt, high-paying Chinese markets. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters and how early Homo sapiens may have once fit seamlessly into the tiger's ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator, and the grave threat it faces as logging and poaching reduce its habitat and numbers - and force it to turn at bay. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger is a gripping tale of man and nature in collision, that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the Siberian forest.
Baghdad and beyond
Author: Mora Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Countryman
Author: John William Robertson Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Slavonic Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Adult Catalog: Authors
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Books and Bookmen
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Siberia and the Soviet Far East
Author: David Norman Collins
Publisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description