Retrieve Of Tigers And Men Generated By Richard Ives Available As Textbook

and gloom predictions of the wild tiger's demise by this time made a decade ago did not come true thankfully!, although the situation continues to deteriorate.
The depressing forecast aside, this book is compact yet packed with concise info on human cultural history with the Tiger, while giving an interesting account of the author's personal relationship with the beast and nature in Asia.
Less of a meandering prose than Ruth Patel's more recent work, Beautiful read. An autobiography of Richard Ives, The realization of the eventual extinction of one of the tigers of the world, I purchased and read this book after I was contacted by the author about a problem he had in tracing the whereabouts of a long lost relative.
Ives was a tour guide for people who wanted to visit the Himalayan regions and India before he began his quest for information about tigers.
The main question he asks is whether they can survive in the face of the growing populations of humans in Asia and the inability of the governments of the region to protect them from various threats to their survival as a species.


More importantly, though, he reports on his own personal quest for an encounter with a tiger in the wild, which seems to be part of a larger effort to understand himself and the people he meets along the way who also are obsessed with tigers.
While the book can be read as a passionate argument for greater effort to protect tigers and their habitats from further human encroachment, in my view it gets its emotional punch from the personal story telling that accompanies the depressing accounts of a waning but beautiful and deadly species.
years ago it might have been a harder sell to defend a large feline predator, so the author was probably wise to add these personal stories to his ardent harangue.
Even though today it is a much easier argument to make and audiences are more receptive to the message, this is still a fine book.
It entertains and teaches in about equal measure, The author was a naturalist and tour guide in Asia, especially conducting tours in Nepal, in the lates, During the later part of the 's until the early 's he had an interest in researching the demise of tigers in the wild with the intent in writing a book on the subject.
Although the book was probably not what he may have envisioned in the beginning, he intertwines his research on tigers with those people he meets along the way, primarily those in India who for one reason or not had a close understanding of tigers in the wild and were able to open opportunities to the author for conducting research firsthand.
The book is written almost like a journal and reflects his personal accounts as well as sharing his selfdoubts about himself and many of those people he meets along the way.
A strange book. The author writes about his quest to walk up to a wild tiger in the jungle, The book is partly a book about tigers, partly a travelogue, describing the places in the world that he visits, and partly character sketches of the interesting and erudite people he meets along the way, some of whom tell him hes crazy suicidal.
Most of the people that appear in the book love tigers, and hate to see them wiped out in the wild.
They grudgingly realize that in areas where tigers and humans coexist, the tigers kill a nontrivial number of people, but they are heartbroken about humans erasing the menace.


The author writes well,
This book is reminiscent of Ruth Padel's Tigers in Red Weather or even Peter Matthiessen's Tigers in the Snow, If you are looking for a book that gives you good information on tigers while telling you a story of the author's travels, then look no further.
This book chronicles a fouryear period in the author's life and is a fascinating account of the plight of the wild tiger in India.
This book has a depressing conclusion that the age of wild tigers is in its final years, . . irrevocably. That is not why I am rating this book so low, Along the voyage of uncovering this animal's plight from central India to southeast Asia, he finds many words to complain and delineate what aggravates him in travelling and seems to entirely miss what must have been stunning, impressive, and meaningful.
Also, not a single picture to help us realize these exotic locales, This is a great book, I would definitely recommend it, Although its about tigers it's really a metaphor for so many species on our planet so near the brink of no return.
We have entered the age of extinction, Soon many of the animal kingdoms most extraordinary creatures will no longer roman free, hunted and hounded out of existenceincluding one of its most magnificent denizens, the wild tiger.

 
It was this sobering realization of impending tragedy that inspired naturalist and safari leader Richard Ives to embark on a stirring adventure and spiritual journey across India, Nepal, and Southeast Asiameeting enigmatic wanderers and crusading “tiger men” as he made his way through some of the planets most breathtaking but diminishing wild places.
For there he hoped to achieve a dangerous, great and perhaps foolhardy goal before dire circumstances and human greed rendered it unattainable: to enter the last natural domain of the tiger, unarmed and on foodand to confront the majestic beast facetoface, eyetoeye.

 
Of Tigers and Men is an exceptional reallife adventure storyone of those rare and remarkable books that can honestly change the way we see our world.
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