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Tyger reminds me a lot of Varjak Paw, a previous novel by Said that I adored, mostly for its feline focus and chapter lessons in opening up the mind to achieve remarkable things. However, the rest of this novel seems like a very timely reminder that more unites us than we think and that the real threat comes from pale, well-dressed men who lure the needy into insurmountable debt and in-fighting. Translated into several languages, including French and Danish, millions of copies have sold globally. It was on The New York Times and The Globe and Mail best-selling lists for over a year.
Vaillant looks at people’s innate reaction to tigers, reporting on a study which concludes that our awareness of predator-prey relationships is an in-born gift from our ancestors. There is a fascinating section on why predators are naturally selected for intelligence. A dumb tiger will starve to death if it does not first become a cat-sicle in the 40-below temperatures of winter in the Amur region. Second bit of true infromation. Tigers are missing what is the tiger version of the collarbone. This allows them to jump really far. An Indian tiger can gain the height of a Asian Elephant quite easily. In the course of this account, Mr. Vaillant colors the local characters and the poverty in the Primorski province of the Russian Far East, and makes one contemplate who is more danger to man (Panthera tigris altaica or Hominis corrupti regimen).
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Ultimately, the problem comes down to umwelt; we are such prisoners of our subjective experience that it is only by force of will and imagination that we are able to take leave of it at all and consider the experience and essence of another creature—or even another person." To end a person's life is one thing; to eradicate him from the face of the earth is another. The latter is far more difficult to do, and yet the tiger had done it, had transported this young man beyond death to a kind of carnal oblivion." A tiger goes man-eater and terrorizes a remote Siberian village. Can Yuri Trush and his men end the tiger's bloody reign of terror or join its long list of victims? This book sold millions of copies in several languages and remained on The New York Times and The Globe and Mail best-selling lists for over a year. By regularly bringing down large prey like elk, moose, boar, and deer, the tiger feeds countless smaller animals, birds, and insects, not to mention the soil. Every such event sends another pulse of lifeblood through the body of the forest."
It's one of those books that you get so absorbed in and you learn all of these interesting facts that you want to share with people... for instance (I just have to share!) tigers are known for their virility and their strength - and the Sanskrit word for tiger *vyagghra* was Anglicized into "viagra" for the well-known impotency medication. Interesting, right? Well, there's more to learn inside this book!
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Regarding Russian history in understanding human impact, you will see the conflicts and contradictions of heavy handed human ecosystem destruction hand in hand with conservation measures. A battle in itself with our blind weedy species weighing ever more on one end of the teeter-totter. Living with Tigers reflects his love for the majestic beasts as he recounts significant insights about the old days of Indian tiger reserves and fascinating observations on tiger behavior. A few reviewers said that they couldn’t understand why this book is considered to be so great. Pros and Cons of Life of Pi byYann Martel Pros His exploits in rugged terrain, harsh political climate, plane crashes, and unfriendly situations guarantee a gripping read.
Here's the review that led me to read it, by Kelly Robson, https://kellyrobson.com/my-favorite-n...
The wonders you can find in the giant, bountiful gardens of literature never cease to amaze. One need only look widely enough and take a chance and she might be put in the Siberian taiga (the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes) in far eastern Russia as the locals encounter a looming Amur tiger a/k/a Siberian tiger, an otherworldly animal in all its magnificence, a ne plus ultra combination of beauty and size and ferocity, growing up to ten feet in length from head to hind and nearly seven-hundred pounds. This Siberian seems intent on exacting revenge for being shot, having already eaten two men in separate incidents over several days. There are scenes in the beginning of this book that will give you chills. A tiger has killed a man and a group of investigators are on the scene. Vaillant describes the remnants of the victim as the group very carefully follows the trail of carnage, seeing what has been left uneaten. The tiger is probably watching. I was hooked very early on. Although the book does not sustain that high level of tingle, it is a fascinating look at the largest feline on earth, the Siberian tiger, or more specifically, the Amur tiger. I particularly liked the author’s description: “this is what you get when you pair the agility and appetites of a cat with the mass of an industrial refrigerator.” Siberians, larger than the more familiar Bengal tigers, max out at about 800 pounds. After the fall of the Soviet Union exacerbated poaching and habitat loss in Russia, a team of Russian scientists and American wildlife biologists collaborated to prevent the extinction of the Siberian tiger. The book is ostensibly about a tiger who has turned unnatural and has killed and even eaten two people. Vaillant shows that this is very, very rare. This part of SE Siberia originally sustained a variety of animals in a boreal forest that is moderately warm in the summer and very cold (30 to 40 below) in the winter. Native Udeghe and Nanai people coexisted well with the tiger and consider it a god. Their shamanic religion tells them to honor and not molest the tiger. With the arrival of Russians beginning nearly 200 years ago, a lot of pressures have developed and upset the natural balance of things with logging, mining, and weapons that have been used to kill tigers. The natural food sources have diminished for the top animals and humans alike. Numbers of tigers have greatly decreased and the tigers remaining are stressed.
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