Tiger Fire: 500 Years of the Tiger in India

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Tiger Fire: 500 Years of the Tiger in India Author: VALMIK THAPAR Book Format: Paperback Genre: Business & Economics ISBN: 9789384067243 Language: English Pages: 401-500 Pages Publish Year: 2017 Publisher: Aleph Book Company Sub Genre: Business Analysis Books 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 Culled from over a million words (both published and unpublished) on the animal and s Country of Origin: India