The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

by John Vaillant

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  Permissions Acknowledgments

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

  Stanford University Press: Excerpt from untitled poem from The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, volume 3, 1939–1962 edited by Tim Hunt, copyright © 1954, 1963 by Garth and Donnan Jeffers. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Stanford University Press, www.sup.org.

  University of Hawaii Press: “Sunset” by Yun Sǒn-do from Poems from Korea, edited and translated by Peter H. Lee, copyright © 1974 by University of Hawaii Press. Reprinted by permission of University of Hawaii Press.

  A Note About the Author

  John Vaillant’s first book was The Golden Spruce. He has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Outside, National Geographic, and Men’s Journal, among others. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and children.

  Liuty at Vladimir Kruglov’s wildlife rehabilitation center (John Goodrich)

  Cossacks with tiger, c. 1885 (Courtesy of Vladimir Trofimov)