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The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary
hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this
pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism
and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man,
tiger and nature on a collision course. In Champawat, India, circa
1900, a Bengal tigress was wounded by a poacher in the forests of
the Himalayan foothills. Unable to hunt her usual prey, the tiger
began stalking and eating an easier food source: human beings.
Between 1900 and 1907, the Champawat Man-Eater, as she became
known, emerged as the most prolific serial killer of human beings
the world has ever known, claiming an astonishing 436 lives.
Desperate for help, authorities appealed to renowned local hunter
Jim Corbett, an Indian-born Brit of Irish descent, who was
intimately familiar with the Champawat forest. Corbett, who would
later earn fame and devote the latter part of his life to saving
the Bengal tiger and its habitat, sprang into action. Like a
detective on the tail of a serial killer, he tracked the tiger's
movements, as the tiger began to hunt him in return. This was the
beginning of Corbett's life-long love of tigers, though his first
encounter with the Champawat Tiger would be her last.
Home is where the heart is Barry Bleecker wanted to trade in his
dreary life for one of adventure and art. Until he finds himself
washed up on a deserted beach with only four pairs of contact
lenses to his name... Sophie Ducel was meant to be having the
honeymoon of a lifetime. Then the plane goes down and her world
becomes a speck of sand in an endless ocean. They have one task: to
survive. These two very different people must find a way to
reconcile their differences and make their home a castle, on an
island, surrounded by water...
"THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BOURBON."-Sacramento Bee A Southern
Independent Booksellers Alliance Bestseller A ROLLICKING BIOGRAPHY
OF BOURBON WHISKEY THAT DOUBLES AS "A COMPLEX AND ENTERTAINING"
(WALL STREET JOURNAL) HISTORY OF AMERICA ITSELF Few products are so
completely or intimately steeped in the American story as bourbon
whiskey. As Dane Huckelbridge's masterfully crafted history
reveals, the iconic amber spirit is the American experience,
distilled, aged, and sealed in a bottle.
A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink
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