The Sundarbans, a huge, swampy area in the Bay of Bengal, remains the largest tract of mangrove forests on the face of the earth and is the only place where tigers eat men. Elsewhere in Asia, tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, but here they are the hunters, routinely carrying away fishermen, honey gatherers and woodcutters and feasting on human flesh. SY Montgomery has devoted years to this mist-shrouded, forest screened region, and in Spell of the ...
