Arjan Singh's Tiger Book

This is an anthology about the tiger in India. The contributors come from various walks of life (conservation, wildlife, ecology, photography and film-making) bound by a common interest in the tiger. Jim Corbett was a hunter turned conservationist who edited India’s first magazine on the subject. His ‘Chowgarh Tigers’ is the soul-hunting story written in an age of changing circumstances by a man who forsaw the possible extinction of the tiger but reacted violently because of the involvement of the human element. Nicholas Courtney is a writer, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker. Valmik Thapar is a photographer, documentary filmmaker and writer. Fiona Sunquist is a wildlife writer and photographer. Mel Sunquist is a wildlife ecologist. In the modern context the extinction of this glamourous cat is a spectre that haunts all of us. The magnitude of this loss will make itself felt only when the species is in limbo. It behoves civilised humanity to ensure the tiger’s survival, and the great forests he needs to live in, and of which he is the symbol.