Shooting A Tiger

Author : Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199096600
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting a Tiger written by Vijaya Ramadas Mandala and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations. This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.

Author : William Echikson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 078674149X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting for Tiger written by William Echikson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many parents encourage their children to become the next Einstein or Yo-Yo Ma, some push their kids to become the next Tiger Woods. No longer does an elite, elderly set dominate golf. A new class of driven teenaged players is transforming the game, and a series of high-profile, professionally- run tournaments determine which of these teens have a shot at reaching the top levels. In Shooting for Tiger, William Echikson takes us inside a spirited season of the American Junior Golf Association's elite tournaments. From the fairways, Echikson unveils a fascinating sub culture: kids who have foregone traditional childhoods, families determined to produce champions, and rigorous golf academies devoted to training the world's top prospects. Vividly told, Shooting for Tiger examines the real costs of professionalizing young players and offers an unforgettable portrait of athletic obsession.

Author : Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Author : William Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger-shooting in India written by William Rice and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Cookson Fife-Cookson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger-shooting in the Doon and Ulwar written by John Cookson Fife-Cookson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Vaillant
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307375277
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tiger written by John Vaillant and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. To their horrified astonishment it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, and the story becomes a battle for survival between the two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself. As John Vaillant vividly recreates the extraordinary events of that winter, he also gives us an unforgettable portrait of a spectacularly beautiful region where plants and animals exist that are found nowhere else on earth, and where the once great Siberian Tiger - the largest of its species, which can weigh over 600 lbs at more than 10 feet long - ranges daily over vast territories of forest and mountain, its numbers diminished to a fraction of what they once were. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers - even sharing their kills with them - in a natural balance. We witness the first arrival of settlers, soldiers and hunters in the tiger's territory in the 19th century and 20th century, many fleeing Stalinism. And we come to know the Russians of today - such as the poacher Vladimir Markov - who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching for the corrupt, high-paying Chinese markets. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters and how early Homo sapiens may have once fit seamlessly into the tiger's ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator, and the grave threat it faces as logging and poaching reduce its habitat and numbers - and force it to turn at bay. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger is a gripping tale of man and nature in collision, that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the Siberian forest.

Author : John Cookson Fife-Cookson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger-shooting in the Doon and Ulwar written by John Cookson Fife-Cookson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Rice
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375159285
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger-Shooting in India written by William Rice and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Author : Craig Moore
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a Tiger Tank written by Craig Moore and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Panzer VI Ausf.E Tiger I tank first arrived on the battlefield, it launched an Allied and Soviet intelligence race to discover everything they could about this new threat. The British Army needed to know how to knock it out, and then communicate their information to the troops that had to face this new German metal monster either by official means or via newspapers. Using original official period documents from the Second World War, How to Kill a Tiger Tank: Unpublished Scientific Reports from the Second World War, this is not a typical book on the Tiger tank. It shows the reader what the British and Commonwealth forces knew about the Tiger I tank during the war and the results of scientific firing trials. Unpublished and original documents, discovered in different archives, have been transcribed and reproduced along with existing photographs found in these secret reports. These include top secret Bletchley Park Enigma intercepts of German messages, which were decoded and translated before being sent to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. One such intercept discovered in the archives shows the exact moment when Churchill became aware of the existence of a heavy tank called the Tiger. On 25 November 1942, he marked the intercept in his normal red pen and asked Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, indicating the word ‘Tiger’ in the message with ‘CIGGS, what are these?’

Author : Harry R. Caldwell
Publisher : London : Duckworth
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Tiger written by Harry R. Caldwell and published by London : Duckworth. This book was released on 1924 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: