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Thousands of books have been written on Indian wildlife. But this one is different. This book highlights the best places to see the tiger and all the other wildlife that lives alongside it. Where this book differs from others is that each photograph carries the day. date and time on which it was taken. Yes, the photography was done in real time and taken in just 50 days! Almost all other wildlife books have photographs taken or compiled over a long period of ...
Sariska, in Rajasthan, has been one of the most famous national parks in India, especially for its tigers. However, it had lost every single one of its tiger population to poachers a decade ago. The revelation was devastating. It sent shock waves not only throughout India but also abroad. After much discussions, apprehensions, arguments, legal battles, and interference of the Prime Minister, a few tigers were shifted from Ranthambhore to Sariska. This was the ...
The Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, one of India’s most exciting and best-protected wildernesses, is fast turning into the country’s finest, most secure tiger habitat. Located in the Chandrapur district, Tadoba is the oldest national park in Maharashtra and was brought under Project Tiger’s mantle in 1993. One of India’s most celebrated forests in the 1960s, mining, timber and bamboo extraction, plus agriculture combined to tatter the green ...
Imbued with the scent of the earth, green leaves washed by incessant rains, spirit of the Tiger thrillingly captures all that is wonderful abot the king of the jungle-stalking, hunting, sharing kills and fighting over them, mating, parenting, or simply cooling off in water holes and streams.
Turn over the pages and admire the brilliant photographs where tigers peer through and pose with their cubs and mates and other denizens of the jungle.
Majestic Lord of the ...
Billy Arjan Singh is the only person in the world known to have hand-reared a tiger cub and retuned it to the wild. This pictorial biography is a tribute to this enigmatic man who was one of the first people to put the spotlight on tiger conservation in India. It chronicles his controversial life and times, and tells the story of his pioneering experiments in bringing up leopard and tiger cubs, in harmony with his pet dog, at his estate in Dudhwa, Uttar Pradesh. ...
Tigers of the Sundarbans are the only tigers that live in mangroves,, yet they have the highest probability of persistence in the long-term if we can ensure their scientific management. This magnificent creature is the icon of the natural heritage of Bangladesh where it has become the prestigious National Animal. Information on this unique tigers of unique habitat, however, is very limited. Tigers in mangroves is a comprehensive, scientific and eminently readable ...
Babi Nobis was barely 11 years old when he had his first chance encounter with a tiger in the jungles of Hazaribagh. The experience not only left an indelible impression on his young mind but also instilled in him a deep reverence for this majestic animal. Thereafter, his love for nature’s creatures would only grow with each visit to the wilds, as would his passion for photography.
Over the last twenty-five years, Babi and Tina Nobis have explored the ...
Written with a personal touch, the book focuses on 35 years of Valmik Thapar's engagement with tigers in Ranthambhore National Park and across India. Thapar takes us on a journey of a lifetime from Ranthambhore's ancient and hallowed history and the story of the last two decades of tiger conservation in India to the questionable role of the government to more heartening stories of how local villagers took up conservation-related activities in the quest to find ...
The clock seems to be ticking for India's tiger. It is important-as it is a matter of pure joy-for us and our children to learn about these majestic animals, their habitat, the other animals that must also flourish to keep the balance of nature intact and the forests that are home to our water sources, biodiversity and an essential part of our larger environmental health.We hope our quick reference guide to India's best Tiger Reserves will encourage you ...
Spread across 164 pages of a mega-sized coffee-table book are photographs from the personal archives of Anjali and Jaisal Singh, who run a chain of luxury hotels, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter. The three have been travelling to, and photographing tigers at, Ranthambore, in south-eastern Rajasthan, for many years now.
The medieval ruins of Ranthambore, some of which date back to the 14th century, provide a picturesque ...
The Science of Saving Tigers puts together twenty significant articles on topics ranging from tiger ecology to critiques of government policy from a selection of over seventy that have appeared in various national and international journals, spanning Dr Karanth’s work over two decades. It is essential reading for serious students of conservation biology and will serve as a vital information resource for tiger conservationists in particular.
The tiger is the largest living member of the cat family, but poaching and territorial encroachments are diminishing tiger populations to the extent of making them endangered. Before the tiger vanishes forever from the land which was once synonymous with tigers, let us at least celebrate its former majesty with When The Tiger was King, a book about tigers, that pays tribute to their fierce splendour and beauty. In this Rupa anthology, Ruskin Bond brings together ...
From time immemorial, the tiger, India's national animal, has been represented in various art forms. Valmik Thapar delves deep into the cult of the tiger to show how the animal resides in the very soul of the country's cultural beliefs, myths, and legends.
Exploring the close relationship between man and tiger forged over thousands of years, this book reveals almost every facet of this amazing animal: from 10,000-year-old cave paintings in Madhya Pradesh to ...
The easiest and best medicine available in this world for a long and happy life is ‘laughter’. This book gives plenty of this medicine to its readers along with a lot of wisdom. Tiger in the Toilet is a unique book. It educates the reader while entertaining. There would not be a single page in this book the reader will not enjoy reading. And there would not be a single page that does not communicate a life changing message. If you have to read only ...
Collection of news stories and commentaries penned by the author from 2003 to 2009.
This book is about the crisis of tiger habitats. The background setting is the life history of Bukkha--the famous tiger of Panna National Park. All along various issues of wildlife and ecosystem management have been discussed. Finally, the camouflaged threats to natural ecosystems have been outlined and the strategy to cope with these is suggested. It is proposed that there are certain principles which need to be adopted and implemented as a package.
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 ...
Tipu's Tiger is one of the Victoria and Albert Museum's most enduringly famous and fascinating objects. It was made for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore who was killed by the British in 1799 during the final onslaught on his island capital, Seringapatam. After the victory, his treasury was seized and its precious contents rapidly divided between the soldiers of the East India Company army. The spectacular wooden tiger survived, however. Discovered in the ...
Set in the staggeringly beautiful environs of the Ranthambhore National Park, in the colorful Indian state of Rajasthan, Tracking Tigers in Ranthambhore is an insider's account of the lives of the regal beasts of the sub-continent. It is a wildlife tour de force, told with an extraordinary blend of fluid narrative and scientific data. Superb photographs, shot by the author, complement the text, which follows the style of an exhaustive, amusing and ...
The tiger has always been associated with India as hunting the tiger was the acme of sport hunting. Though focused on hunting, considerable data is available on its natural history from observant hunters who had to study the habits and behaviour of the animal if they were to stay alive. The book on the natural history of the tiger looks at the era when the tiger was considered as an animal not on the verge of extinction but an animal to be exterminated! The ...