A gripping, multifaceted True account of the Deadliest Animal of all time and the hunter on its trail, equally comparable to Jaws as to Matthiessen\'s The Snow Leopard.
Like a detective on the trail of a serial killer, Corbett tracked the tiger\'s movements in the dense, hilly woodlands--meanwhile the Animal shadowed Corbett in.
Colonial authorities, desperate for help, finally called upon Jim Corbett, a then-unknown railroad employee of humble origins who had grown up hunting game through the hills of Kumaon.
For the next seven years, this man-made killer terrified locals, growing bolder with every kill.
Injured but alive, it turned from its usual hunting habits to easier prey--humans.
At the turn of the twentieth century as British rule of India tightened and bounties were placed on tiger\'s heads, a tigress was shot in the mouth by a poacher.
Huckelbridge\'s masterful telling also reveals that the tiger, Corbett, and the forces that brought them together are far more complex and fascinating than a simple man-versus-Beast tale.
One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural hiStory of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger, acclaimed writer Dane Huckelbridge\'s No Beast So Fierce is the gripping, True account of the Champawat Tiger, which terrified northern India and Nepal from 1900 to 1907, and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who pursued it.
As the death toll reached an astonishing 436 lives, a young local hunter was dispatched to stop the now-legendary man-eater before it struck again. 1900: The single Deadliest Animal in recorded hiStory began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas.
A GRIPPING TALE OF LIFE AND DEATH." --Minneapolis Star Tribune A National Indie Bestseller Nepal, c.
A FASCINATING JOURNEY." --Science News - "A SUPERB WORK." --Booklist, starred - "VIVID.
DIGS DEEP INTO CAUSATION." --Nature - "TERRIFYING.
A HAUNTING TALE." --Scientific American - "THRILLING." --Wall Street Journal - "GRIPPING. "RIVETING.
A gripping, multifaceted True account of the Deadliest Animal of all time and the hunter on its trail, equally comparable to Jaws as to Matthiessen\'s The Snow Leopard
