Title: The Tiger 
A True Story Of Vengeance and Survival
Author: John Vaillant 
Genre: Non Fiction
Pages: 311
Pages read: 91

Tigers will never attack if you don't attack them

This story up to how much I've read so far, is very interesting especially when I'm fond of learning interesting facts about one of my favourite animals, the tiger. This is a real a real story of the hunters who lived in Russia in 1997 in the Far East of Russia. In that part of Russia people live in small cottages and live on the animals they hunt and fire they chopped the wood for. Tigers were considered extremely dangerous especially the man eating ones and it was really special if one managed to catch one. I've learned that tigers weight quarter of a ton and are powerful enough to swim miles however they're not very fond of swimming. It's so powerful it can kill an animal double its size and drag it 50-100 yards before really killing it. It has 5 claws in the forepaws and in the hind paws four. These talons they use for hunting and for protecting themselves. They can kill a prey in a second with those claws because they are so sharp but they have soft pads which they use in order not to kill their cubs. They would be really soft with their cubs however they meet their enemies with a snarl. Man eating tigers have killed a million Asians. Many hunters went in the search for the hunters only to never come back. There was a man named Markov Vladimir Iljic who lived in a small cottage with his wife and children. Many people liked him because of his joky ways and everyone knew he was a hard-working man. But one day as Markov was getting home he got eaten by a man-eating tiger. Trush, another great hunter came a pink trampled sow, a single glove, a bloodstained cuff, a hand without an arm and a head without  face. It was a horrible but tragic sight to see a very great man beaten by a tiger. The hunters who found him there decided to search for the tiger but were on vain. This book is all about the hunters who suffered wars against tigers and who lived on killing them. Its so far a sad and bloody story about the men who really once lived before, and it is interesting however a bit bloody and it makes me feel sad all over for people to feel such hatred towards tigers; I suppose they would never attack if people didn't attack first. A taiga hunter said, "the tiger will see you a hundred times before you see it once." This quote is pretty true. Tigers spot humans quicker than us. Another one said " While tigers were being stolen from the forests, the forests were also stolen from the tigers." This quote made me really sad to think ho true it is. One really had sympathy or tigers in this book and even though there are some people who tried to protect the tigers, the tiger's biggest enemies are humans. This book doesn't only make you have sympathy on the tigers on the humans s well for good people like Markov because he didn't attack the tiger. The hungry tiger attacked him.