圖書標籤: NonFiction Biology 遠東 俄羅斯 東北虎 Textbook Survival RyanReadingList
发表于2024-08-31
The Tiger pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again.
As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region.
This ancient, tenuous relationship between man and predator is at the very heart of this remarkable book. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters, and how early Homo sapiens may have fit seamlessly into the tiger’s ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain.
Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush, the lead tracker; and the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga.
From the Hardcover edition.
John Vaillant’s first book was the national bestseller The Golden Spruce, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction, as well as several other awards. He has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Outside, National Geographic and The Walrus, among other publications. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and children.
www.johnvaillant.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JohnVaillant
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讀的很慢,但實在寫的太優美。也都是熟悉的人物,就沒有中斷的讀瞭。
評分非常好看!這個作者不懂俄語,卻寫齣一本後蘇聯時代俄羅斯濱海邊疆區民族誌一樣的nonfiction,可見其下功夫之深。他在acknowledgement裏格外緻謝瞭他的俄語翻譯,我覺得這個翻譯對於此書成書的舉足輕重的貢獻值得格外大書特書。
評分非常好看!這個作者不懂俄語,卻寫齣一本後蘇聯時代俄羅斯濱海邊疆區民族誌一樣的nonfiction,可見其下功夫之深。他在acknowledgement裏格外緻謝瞭他的俄語翻譯,我覺得這個翻譯對於此書成書的舉足輕重的貢獻值得格外大書特書。
評分復仇的老虎好比白鯨或奧德賽中的獨眼巨人,射嚮老虎的子彈就如同擲嚮白鯨的魚叉般無力。與前輩亞森尼耶夫一樣,作者將硬科學和大冒險細膩地揉捏在瞭一起。The Tiger不僅是本很好的老虎教科書,而且是本不錯的曆史書,作者不但分析瞭文化大革命和大躍進,甚至在引語中使用瞭苛政猛於虎,頓時淚幕。由布拉德皮特主演的電影不知何日殺青,但是在被作者被判為虎製品走私黑洞的天朝恐難上映,就在前幾天還看到有人網購小老虎。。。另外還瞭解到一些趣味八卦,比如不光羅斯福和亞森尼耶夫,就連納博科夫也是Captain Mayne Reid的粉絲,老納在小時候竟然還將一部分The Headless Horseman翻譯成瞭12音節的亞曆山大體詩!
評分非常好看!這個作者不懂俄語,卻寫齣一本後蘇聯時代俄羅斯濱海邊疆區民族誌一樣的nonfiction,可見其下功夫之深。他在acknowledgement裏格外緻謝瞭他的俄語翻譯,我覺得這個翻譯對於此書成書的舉足輕重的貢獻值得格外大書特書。
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The Tiger pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024