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Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-10-10
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780865475960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the threatened Siberian tiger as it struggles to exist in the little-populated Russian Far East.
Author: Jonathan Neale
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-06-29
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780312266233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After spending almost a year in Nepal and India, Neale presents the true story of tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains and illuminates the gripping history of the Sherpa. 16-page photo insert.
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-04-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1416562737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8). The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation—and a startling, provocative debut.
Author: Desmond Bagley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0008211280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in New Zealand.
Author: Vincanne Adams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1400851777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.
Author: Ben S. Malcom
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 161234898X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Operating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. With Malcom's experiences as its focus, White Tigers examines all aspects of guerrilla activities in Korea. This exciting memoir makes an important contribution to the history of special operations.
Author: Oxford Dictionaries Staff
Publisher:
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780194709330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Max is in a new ice hockey team, called The Tigers. But what happens when grandpa and Clunk take the children to a snowy place to seea snow tiger?"--Back cover.
Author: Claire O'Neal
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1545749779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before the 1900s, hundreds of thousands of wild tigers roamed Southeast Asia. Their beauty, fierceness, and intelligence inspired fear and awe in their human neighbors. These peoples gave the tiger starring roles in folktales and mythology. Human fascination with tigers continues. Unfortunately, the tiger may not survive in the wild much longer. Researchers estimate that fewer than 2,500 tigers remain in their natural habitat. As the human population explodes in Southeast Asia, the wild tiger population pays the price. Can the wild tiger be saved by its only natural enemy, people?
Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1617721581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes how tiger cubs learn all about hunting and living on their own.
Author: Colleen A. Sexton
Publisher: Bellwether Media
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1600146635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Fascinating images accompany information about the Bengal tiger. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
