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Tiger Fire: 500 Years of the Tiger in India, Part 1 of The Indian Wildlife Trilogy Hardcover – Unabridged, 3 December 2013

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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, François 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 Culled from over a million words (both published and unpublished) on the animal and several thousand photographs, the accounts and pictures assembled in this book show us the tiger in extraordinary and compelling detail.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.

Key Features:
  • Spanning over the period of 500 years, this is the definitive collection of writings on the tiger by one of India's foremost naturalists.
  • Beautifully designed, with thousands of rare and stunning photographs of the tiger taken over the years by various photographers, Tiger Fire is a collector's edition for both wildlife enthusiasts and the everyman.
  • It contains a section on the crisis that India is facing in the field of tiger conservation and lists a few solutions, which makes the book relevant to the times.
  • Carefully selected by Valmik Thapar, some of the extracts have been drawn from rare and out-of-print books, making this collection unique and noteworthy

Book Description


Young Tiger

Young tigers love climbing trees or using them as a vantage point to scan the landscape.


Raking Bark

Tigers rake the bark of specific trees in their home range with their claws. These marks are like territorial signals for other tigers and such behaviour asserts territorial rights for a period of time.


Tiger Sambar

A tiger watches a sambar stag in full flight. Once the animal is fleeing, few tigers pursue their quarry. They prefer to attack over short distances.


Tiger Cheetal

A tiger at full stretch after a cheetal stag.


Cubs

Within months, the cubs grow up and are taken for long walks by their mother in order to familiarize them with their home range.


Banyan

A tigress crosses under the canopy of one of the finest banyan trees in India.


Aggrression

Aggression between tigers occurs most commonly around food and the process of feeding, especially when adult animals feed together. However, such situations are rare. Aggression amongst tigers towards each other is uncommon in Ranthambhore, and Nasty (in this photo) was the only tiger who was so aggressive.


Genghis

During 1983-84, Ranthambhore witnessed an extraordinary and quite exceptional form of tiger predation when one particular resident male developed a technique for attacking and killing his prey in the water, concentrating his activities around the three lakes. Nowhere in the literature of the past have we been able to find any other account of a tiger behaving in this way. As a strategist, he was unmatched—an innovator. He was named Genghis.

About the Author

Valmik Thappar has spent several decades serving the wild tigers of India. During this time, he has written more than twenty books and made or presented nearly a dozen films for the BBC and several other television networks on the tiger and Indian flora and fauna. He has also created a major non-governmental organization dedicated to conserving wildlife, the Ranthambhore Foundation. Although he has served on hundreds of government panels and committees relating to nature conservation, he is today a fierce critic of government policy. He continues to campaign and fight for new ways to save wild tigers and nature in India.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aleph Book Company (3 December 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9382277560
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9382277569
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
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Valmik Thapar has spent four decades serving the cause of wild India. During this time, he has authored, co-authored and edited more than twenty-five books and made or presented nearly a dozen films for the BBC and several other television networks on the tiger and Indian flora and fauna. His latest book Saving Wild India: A Blueprint for Change is all about finding real solutions to protect India’s wildlife. Winged Fire is the final book in his acclaimed trilogy that includes Wild Fire and Tiger Fire.

Thapar has created a major non-governmental organization dedicated to conserving wildlife, the Ranthambore Foundation. He is currently a member of the Rajasthan Board for Wildlife chaired by the state’s chief minister and has helped the state government formulate a holistic forest conservation scheme-the Van Dhan Yojana.

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