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This book, says Valmik Thapar, is his magnum opus on the planet's "most charismatic animal". It's all about the tiger, from long before cave paintings down to the present so-called "scientific age".
 
The book is also an appeal. An appeal in the wilderness?
 
That depends on you. The tiger, as you know, is in trouble. If not hunted by the unfeeling, then put to flight in its own natural habitat. Only around 1,500 or so are left, and if people with compassion for the planet's cohabitants""are you?""fail to do something about it now, while every nanosecond still counts, the human species would have to consider itself guilty of specicide.
 
Look it up. It is grim, sighs Thapar. But it is the truth. Tiger
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
 
Valmik Thapar
Rs 3,000
339 PAGES
OUP

 
 

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