This book is both celebration and warning. Over 25 years of work with the tigers of Ranthambhore, the authors have observed the magnificent animal growing in number and gradually losing its fear of man.

Wild Tigers of Ranthambhore

Science & Math

VALMIK THAPAR

Fateh Singh Rathore

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

INT. INDIA-Land of the Tiger PB

BBC CONSUMER PUBLISHING

Tiger (Natural World)

Follow a Bengal tiger as it takes its first steps through life in the forests of India. Discover how the tigress teaches her cubs to stalk, kill and eat their prey; join the cubs as they grow up and find their own territories and find out about the threats facing tigers and what can be done to protect them. This book is one of a series, which explores the lives of some of the world's wild animals through their life cycles, natural habitats, food chains and the threats that they face daily. It is endorsed by the Worldwide Fund for Nature.

Raintree Pub

Ever since man first set eyes on the tiger, it has captivated people the world over. With its exceptional photography and insightful text, TIGER: The Ultimate Guide is a fitting tribute to this fascinating creature. An indispensible resource for animal lovers and conservationists alike, this book offers the most complete account to date of the natural and cultural history of the tiger - from its evolution and behavior to its symbolic importance in myth and ritual. Anecdotal and statistical information concerning the tiger's continued exploitation and struggle for survival, past and present, illuminate and inform a discussion of current preservation efforts. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 images, TIGER: The Ultimate Guide features an unsurpassed collection of photographs of tigers in the wild, many never before published, that showcase the work of some of the world's finest photographers. Also included are superb examples of tiger-inspired art through the centuries - from ancient mosaics and Indian paintings to the work of European artists suchs as Delacroix, Bugatti, Stubbs, Rousseau, and Dali. The extraordinary array of illustrations presented in this distinctive volume has been drawn from archives, private collections, and museums around the world. 
A passionate first-person narrative by Valmik Thapar who has spent most of the last thirty years observing tigers in the wild and fighting to ensure their survival, is supplemented by the latest scientific findings and essays by twenty of the world's most renowned experts. This stunning book explores every aspect of one of nature's most majestic animals, making TIGER: The Ultimate Guide as authoritative as it is beautiful.

Tiger

CDS Books

Study of Ranthambhore National Park.

The tiger's destiny

Time Books International

This book charts key moments in the fight to save the tiger, from early beginnings until now. It comprises the finest examples of tiger conservation by the greatest defenders of wild tigers. Between 1875 and 1925 more than 80,000 tigers were slaughtered. Over the next fifty years the massacre grew so alarming that the tiger was driven to the brink of extinction. Alongside this mindless butchery, there began a crusade to protect the tiger. The earliest essay here laments India's vanishing wilderness. By 1920 E.P.Stebbing, one of the first great protectors, speaks out for changes in wildlife laws. Then F.W.Champion, renowned for his pioneering writings, argues against motorcars in forests and limits on gun licences. Jim Corbett is heard befriending the tiger while pointing out that hunters create man-eaters. Later there is S.H. Prater, pleading for protection measures. The 1950s and 1960s are represented by E.P. Gee and Richard Perry, who feared the tiger was doomed. George Schaller, a guru to tigerwallahs, is seen injecting science into investigations of tiger decline. Indian voices are heard soon: Billy Arjan Singh, K. Sankhala, M. Krishnan and S.P. Shahi. Then recent spokesmen: Peter Jackson, John Seidensticker, Ullas Karanth, Geoffrey Ward and Alan Rabinowitz, who have 'scientised' an issue which now covers Thailand, Indo-China, Nepal, Bangladesh and Siberia. In recent times no activist has been more passionate about tiger conservation than Valmik Thapar. The present book is part of his ongoing crusade. It is also a wonderfully readable anthology on the perils faced by tigers, and the travails of those trying to ensure it retains its regal, untamed magnificence.

Saving Wild Tigers 1900-2000, The Essential Writings

Permanent Black

In the sixteenth century, dutch traveller jan linschoten noted the absence of lions throughout the indian subcontinent two hundred years later, echoing similar comments made by various hunters and observers of indian wildlife, the british shikari and writer, captain thomas williamson, emphatically declared: there are no lions in hindustan much the same was said about the cheetah in the region these observations piqued the interest of well-known naturalist valmik thapar after an enormous amount of research and study he now believes that, contrary to existing scientific theory, neither of these animals were indigenous to the indian subcontinent remarking on the lack of accounts of encounters with these animals as opposed to the tiger and the leopard which are extensively documented as well as inconclusive genetic studies, he argues that, over the centuries, the lion and cheetah were brought into the country from persia and africa by royalty, either as tributes or to populate their hunting parks and menageries enlisting the help of renowned historian, romila thapar who analyzes historical accounts and representations of the lion in early india and scholar, yusuf ansari who looks back at the lives of the mughals and their famed hunts to further validate his theory, valmik thapar concludes at the end of this thought-provoking book that the indian lion and the indian cheetah were, in fact, exotic imports, and not indigenous subspecies tracing the history of the lion and the cheetah for over 5,000 years, and substantiated with pictorial evidence, exotic aliens is a pioneering work that could turn field biology on its head

EXOTIC ALIENS

Literature & Fiction

ALEPH BOOK COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED

Spanning of a period of 500 years, this is the definitive collection of writings on the tiger by one of India's foremost naturalists.

Tiger Fire: 500 Years of the Tiger in India

Rupa Publishers

Saving Wild India: A Blueprint for Change

Aleph Book Company

Valmik Thapar first went to Ranthambhore, in 1976, at the age of twenty-three. He was a city boy, unsure of what lay ahead. When he entered the forest, which would go on to become one of the last strongholds of wild tigers, it had a profound effect on him, changing his life forever. For the next forty years, he studied nearly 200 Ranthambhore tigers, spending every waking moment in close proximity to these magnificent animals. Of the various tigers he observed a handful became extra special and it is these which come to glorious life in this book. They include Padmini, the Queen Mother, the first tiger the author got to know well; Genghis, the master predator, who invented a way of killing prey in water, the first time this had been observed anywhere in the world; Noon, one of his all-time favourites, who received her name because she was most active in the middle of the day; Broken Tooth, an exceptionally gentle male; Laxmi, a devoted mother, whose methods of raising her cubs revolutionized tiger studies; Machli, the most famous tigress in Ranthambhore and several more.

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