The next evening, he returned to the same spot for another look-and found paw tracks following his footprints all the way back to where he’d parked. By 3 A.M, he’d spotted nothing, so he headed back to his truck. But just to be safe, LeFebvre strapped on night-vision goggles, loaded a rifle with a tranquilizer dart, and set off into the woods behind the Du Pont Country Club. It was silly, of course-big cats had been wiped out on the East Coast more than a century ago. Read his review of The Tiger: A few years ago, I interviewed a Delaware state trooper named Butch LeFebvre who’d been assigned to investigate rumors that a mountain lion was roaming the outskirts of Wilmington. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania. He's written for magazines ranging from Esquire and The New York Times Magazine to Outside and Men’s Health.
He is a former war correspondent for the Associated Pressand a three-time National Magazine Award finalist. Dave Callanan Christopher McDougall Reviews The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival Christopher McDougall is the author of national bestseller Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen. It's a gutsy approach that could easily lead to chaotic storytelling, but Vaillant is careful to keep the bone-chilling storyline taut by capturing the intensity of an animal worthy of our greatest respect and deepest fears.
Yet it engages the reader on political, socioeconomic, and conservation fronts in order to explain how the stage was set for a deadly showdown. At its core, The Tiger is the story of a desperate poacher who picked the wrong tiger to accost.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the taiga, John Vaillant provides an unforgettable true account of a lethal collision between man and beast in a remote Russian village during the late 1990's. Fearsome strength is at the command of a calculating mind that relentlessly stalks its newest prey: man. Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: Deep in the frigid Siberian wilderness, an Amur tiger hunts.
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