On a stormy night, while thunder rolled and lightning streaked across the

sky, Hugh Allen saw a glimpse of a fierce tiger standing in the balcony of his

farmhouse.

Tracking the Pipal Pani tiger for years, Jim Corbett had to finally decide if the

regal animal had become a man-eater or not.

Ruskin Bond travelled far to see a tiger, and waited and waited, but finally the

tiger showed itself in a most unusual way.

In Tiger! Tiger! some of the best writers on nature and wildlife describe tigers

of various kinds. There are the famous tigers who have lived among us and

who have been studied by conservationists like Valmik Thapar and Raghu

Chundawat. Tigers who have breathed life into astonishing poems by William

Blake and Pratibha Nandakumar. There are foolish tigers and heedlessly proud

tigers from folktales and legends. There are also stories of supernatural tigers

who haunt dreams, and who extract revenge.

As mysterious as it is important, the tiger lives as much in the forest as in our

collective imaginations. In this wonderful collection of writings by writers old

and new, get to know the amazing big cat in a whole new way.