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Bezig met laden... No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in Historydoor Dane Huckelbridge
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) BBrookes | Nov 14, 2023 |  The author, Dane Huckenbridge, does an ample job of writing and is clearly a good writer as what is written is done quite well. My big beef is that the whole focus of the title and for that matter the focus of the book is the Champawat tiger, which hardly gets any book space comparatively speaking. Where are the 436 victims? Where is the Champawat tiger? There has to be something out there in which to write about instead of writing around the antagonist, focusing only on the instant of demise instead of giving her (it was a female...no real spoiler there) life. I mean, here is an animal that Huckenbridge argues is the most prolific killer of humans of all time and we really get nothing but the end of the story. Would I recommend this? I don't know. If I did I would have to note my complaint to those that are asking. Again, I am not saying that what is written was bad, I actually enjoyed what was in the book. I only have the one real complaint, but it is a big one...tiger sized. (  ) Schneider | Apr 12, 2023 | There have been some well known and documented cases concerning man-eaters such as a female tiger responsible for over 100 deaths in 1997, and, in 2014 a tiger that left a National Park attacked 10 people over a 6 week period. While man-eaters aren’t common, there have been enough cases to provide some information. Of 18 man-eaters examined after death, 10 of them had physical injuries to their teeth or paws that would encourage them to go for easy prey like men. The Champawt Tiger showed damage to her jaws that appeared to have been caused by a gun. I learned a lot about tigers from this book so I am happy to have read it but I did have a few problems with the writing as the author seemed to stretch the story out by repeating himself and the facts. And although there were a lot of facts to absorb, he also adds his own thoughts and guesswork into events where there is little to no documentation, leaving this reader unsure of what is the truth and what is supposition. But overall I found No Beast So Fierce to be a horrendous yet fascinating story. (  ) DeltaQueen50 | Feb 20, 2023 | One of the most important things Huckelbridge did for me in his book was to give me a much greater respect for tigers. I knew they were marvelous creatures but didn't really understand just how wonderful they are. A tiger is "nature's nearest equivalent to a short-range missile," and to put what the Champawat Tiger did into perspective, she "very nearly consumed the entire NBA." Hearing this, many people would want nothing more than to kill the tigress and put an end to the whole thing. Done and dusted. No more thought required. The second important thing Huckelbridge does in No Beast So Fierce is to prove that the Champawat Tiger was an entirely man-made disaster. Through many thoughtless government decisions, the tigress's killing field was created, and for anyone interested in the natural world, it is fascinating to read how this was done. The third important thing that Huckelbridge did was to bring Jim Corbett to my attention. The final scenes where he and the Champawat Tiger meet are extremely tense and almost gave me the impression that I'd fallen into a thriller, and although his success meant that Corbett became the Go-To man for tracking and killing man-eaters, fate had much more in store for him. Corbett wasn't just a killer. In fact, he became one of the stalwarts of the conservation effort to save the Royal Bengal tiger. If you love wildlife and want to immerse yourself in an engrossing piece of history, I suggest reading No Beast So Fierce. It's an eye-opener and proves once again that if some species of wildlife becomes a "problem" we humans need to look to ourselves to see what we did to create it. ( ) cathyskye | May 22, 2022 | Dane Huckelbridge writes an engrossing story that pulled me in from the very beginning and kept me picking up this book to find out the outcome. During the early 1900's a Bengal Tiger began hunting men as food in northern India and Nepal. Huckelbridge explores not only the deaths this animal caused(estimated at more than 400) but the reasons behind why the Tiger suddenly began stalking humans. Many were called to hunt this man-eater down, but the animals rampage continued for years. Enter Jim Corbett, of Irish decedent, but born and raised in the jungles of India. Although Corbett was somewhat of a conservationist, he knew there could be only one ending to this story in order for the Tiger to be stopped. The Book began with the premise that the Champawat Tiger was not a freak of nature, but rather a man-made disaster...the direct result of decades of environmental mismanagement...a catastrophe at least a half a century in the making Warning If you are the least bit squeamish, this book is not for you. Bold and bloody descriptions of both human and animal deaths. ( ) JBroda | Sep 24, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: The astonishing true story of the tiger that claimed a record 437 human lives "Gripping." â??Nature â?¢ "Thrilling. Fascinating. Exciting." â??Wall Street Journal â?¢ "Riveting. Haunting." â??Scientific American Nepal, c. 1900: A lone tigress began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas. As the death toll reached an astonishing 436 lives, a young local hunter was dispatched to stop the man-eater before it struck again. This is the extraordinary true story of the "Champawat Man-Eater," the deadliest animal in recorded history. One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural history of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger, No Beast So Fierce is Dane Huckelbridge's gripping nonfiction account of the Champawat tiger, which terrified northern India and Nepal from 1900 to 1907, and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who pursued it. 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. 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. Injured but alive, it turned from its usual hunting habits to easier preyâ??humans. For the next seven years, this man-made killer terrified locals, growing bolder with every kill. 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. Like a detective on the trail of a serial killer, Corbett tracked the tiger's movements in the dense, hilly woodlandsâ??meanwhile the animal shadowed Corbett in return. Then, after a heartbreaking new kill of a young woman whom he was unable to protect, Corbett followed the gruesome blood trail deep into the forest where hunter and tiger would meet at last. Drawing upon on-the-ground research in the Indian Himalayan region where he retraced Corbett's footsteps, Huckelbridge brings to life one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. And yet Huckelbridge brings a deeper, more complex story into focus, placing the episode into its full context for the first time: that of colonialism's disturbing impact on the ancient balance between man and tiger; and that of Corbett's own evolution from a celebrated hunter to a principled conservationist who in time would earn fame for his devotion to saving the Bengal tiger and its habitat. Today the Corbett Tiger Reserve preserves 1,200 km of wilderness; within its borders is Jim Corbett National Park, India's oldest and most prestigious national park and a vital haven for the very animals Corbett once hunted. An unforgettable tale, magnificently told, No Beast So Fierce is an epic of beauty, terror, survival, and redempti Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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