![]() ![]() It is clear from the physical evidence that he has been attacked by a tiger, which surprises local investigators. An experienced woodsman and hunter, Vladimir Markov, is found dead outside his shack. Vaillant, whose journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and National Geographic, is best-known for his 2005 non-fiction book The Golden Spruce, which won the Canadian Governor General’s Award. Alongside the story of the tiger and its victims, Vaillant relates the recent history of the region, the scientific knowledge and traditional superstitions relating to the Siberian tiger, and the environmental decline which threatens the species’ continued existence. ![]() Vancouver-based American author and journalist John Vaillant’s non-fiction book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (2010) tells the true story of a man-eating tiger who claimed a number of victims in Russia’s far-eastern Primorye region in the late 1990s. ![]()
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