John Vaillant

The Tiger

A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The gripping true story of the hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia's Far East....

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780340962589
• ISBN-10: 0340962585
• Artikelnr.: 33083909

Autorenporträt

John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among others. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Canadian Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His second, The Tiger, was an international bestseller and was translated into sixteen languages, and The Jaguar's Children, his first work of fiction, was a finalist for the Canadian Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent book, Fire Weather, won the Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, and was a finalist the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.