John Vaillant's 2010 account of a man-eating Amur tiger's rampage through the Russian Far East and the rangers who hunted it — combining natural history, Russian culture, and ecological science.
Creates the definitive man-eating tiger narrative — The Tiger interweaves the hunt for a specific Amur tiger with the ecology, history, and culture of the Russian Far East; its account of the tiger as an intelligent adversary who may be exacting revenge is the most sophisticated treatment of human-predator conflict.
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