The Man-Eating Tigers of SundarbansSy Montgomery | 2001-02-26 00:00:00 | Houghton Mifflin Books for Children | 64 | Animals
Along the Bay of Bengal between India and Bangladesh stretches a strange and beautiful flooded forest. This enchanted forest is called the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve and is home to more tigers than anywhere else on earth. There are said to be some five hundred tigers here. Nowhere else do tigers live in a mangrove swamp. And nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people. Yet about three hundred people are killed each year by the tigers of Sundarbans. No one knows why. The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans is a mystery story, but it is also a story about science and myth, about people and tigers, and about different ways of seeing the natural world. Sy Montgomery traveled to Sundarbans searching for answers to the mysteries surrounding these tigers. She listened to what scientists had to say about the unusual tiger behavior and to the stories of the villagers who revere the very animals who hunt them.
Reviews I have already read (and eventually bought )"Spell of the Tiger" also by Sy Montgomery, and notice she wrote this one with illustrations for young people. When I (age 71!) began to read it, it was like a ride on the boat and a walk in the Sunderbans itself. Sy certainly would enthrall a young reader. She describes the Sunderbans and the men and women who live daily with danger. She tells how the people do not hate, though they fear, the tiger, whom they honor as a god. Without the tiger, the forest would not exist. They believe the tiger is protector of the forest, and he is. I highly recommend the book and hope it is a success. The illustrations are beautiful, depicting the Bangladeshi and Indian peoples in a respectful and loving way, especially Girindra and Rathin and their wives.
Reviews an author whose personal agenda raises questions about the credibility of victims and their family-members, often the source of her information. Nothing new..seen on National Geographic and numerous other T.V. programs..Sorry I wasted my money..
Reviews I feel sympathetic to the author. There was a lot of work placed in this book. Unfortunately for the purchaser or reader there is no story here. I bought this book and read it cover to cover. This book may be of peripheral interest only to those in academia who are wildlife experts or interested in minutiae regarding Bangladesh.
This book holds nothing for a wildlife "enthusiast" who keeps tuning the pages hoping for something of interest to occur before the last page. It dosen't. Not even on the last page.
For those who are interested in fascinating stories of tiger behavior, maneaters or India in the years between 1920 to WWII; the books by Jim Corbett are touchingly tragic, human, tense, humorous and fascinating Vinjets (Spelling?).....short stories, which fill each book and will be re read by the owners of the book every few years for life.
Reviews This is a high quality non-fiction book. A portion of it was used on the MCAS ELA test. My class has voted to highly recommend this book!
Reviews I love Tigers and everything about it. About this book, I was surprised to read it in less than an hour, it looks like a very short book or a phamphlet. The content it is ok but the title suggest information and documentation on man eaters, but instead is a shallow review of the general situation. I love sundarbans but no recommend this book.
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