Tiger! Tiger!

On a stormy night, with thunder rolling and lightning splitting the sky, Hugh Allen glimpses a fierce tiger standing on the balcony of his farmhouse. Jim Corbett spends years tracking the Pipal Pani tiger before he must decide whether the animal has truly become a man-eater. Ruskin Bond travels far to see a tiger, waits and waits, and is finally shown one in a most unusual way.

These are a few of the pieces in this anthology of writing about tigers by some of the best nature and wildlife writers. It includes famous tigers studied by conservationists such as Valmik Thapar and Raghu Chundawat, and tigers brought to life in poems by William Blake and Pratibha Nandakumar. Folktales and legends offer foolish tigers and heedlessly proud ones, and there are supernatural tigers that haunt dreams and take revenge.

The tiger is as mysterious as it is important, and it lives as much in the forest as in our collective imagination. Writers old and new help readers get to know the big cat in a fresh way.