Tigers and tigerwallahs.
- Title
- Tigers and tigerwallahs.
- Published by
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.
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- Description
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- "The four books in this Omnibus chronicle the struggle to save the endangered predator, the Indian tiger, that has always ruled Indian jungles.
- This selection focuses on both the lives of tigers, and of a few men who have struggled against overwhelming odds to save the species from extinction."
- "In the first book Tiger Wallahs: Saving the Greatest of the Great Cats, Geoffrey and Diane Ward introduce some of India's most remarkable tigerwallahs."
- "Man-Eaters of Kumaon contains ten stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of the last century."
- "Tiger Haven is an autobiographical account of the struggle of one man, Billy Arjan Singh, to protect Indian wildlife in a small area in the Himalayan foothills."
- "In The Secret Life of Tigers, Valmik Thapar documents the family life of three tigresses and their cubs at every stage of the cubs' development, from soon after birth to adulthood."--Jacket.
- Alternative title
- Man-eaters of Kumaon.
- Tigerwallahs
- Secret life of tigers
- Tiger haven
- Subject
- Contents
- Tiger-wallahs : saving the greatest of the great cats / Geoffrey C. Ward with Diane Raines Ward -- Man-eaters of Kumaon / Jim Corbett -- The secret life of tigers / Valmik Thapar -- Tiger haven / Billy Arjan Singh.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.