This, in turn, attracts the attention of Russian game warden Yuri Trush, whose pathetically underfunded patrol has to eliminate the pain-crazed feline before the locals start an all-out war against tigers in general. In the Vancouver-based Vaillant’s new volume, a rare Siberian tiger carefully tracks down and kills the poacher who’d earlier wounded him with a shotgun. And while one is the story of a man maddened by an almost pathological identification with the natural world, the other is about an animal driven to murderous extremes by human incursion into its ancestral terrain. Both are set in a dense northern forest: the first on Haida Gwaii’s Graham Island, the second in the temperate jungles of the Russian Far East’s Primorsky Krai, just across the border from China. Both fall into that loose category known as creative nonfiction but read, at times, like gripping mystery novels. The similarities between John Vaillant’s two books, the 2005 best-seller The Golden Spruce and his just-released The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf Canada, $34.95), are obvious.
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