About the Book: Tiger Fire: 500 Years of the Tiger in India
The tiger has captured the imagination of human beings from the beginning of
recorded history. It has been feared, worshipped, admired, hunted, studied,
photographed, written about, immortalized in art and poetry and has enthralled
king and commoner alike. Tiger Fire celebrates this magnificent predator by
bringing together the very best non-fiction writing, photography and art on the
Indian tiger from the first written description of a real-life encounter with
the animal by the Mughal Emperor Babur in the sixteenth century to photographs
and studies of the last of the species surviving in the wild today.Conceived