Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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Easily the best book I read this year. Mixing a ripping good yarn with relevant and fascinating ventures into history, evolutionary biology, ethology, and more, Vaillant presents an incredible story credibly, weaving painstaking research and hours of interviews into a final product that he the author then recedes from, so we are not distracted from the story, the people who were there--I devoured this book!
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Colette Janning, January 17, 2012
Easily the best book I read this year. Mixing a ripping good yarn with relevant and fascinating ventures into history, evolutionary biology, ethology, and more, Vaillant presents an incredible story credibly, weaving painstaking research and hours of interviews into a final product that he the author then recedes from, so we are not distracted from the story, the people who were there--I devoured this book!