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Ranthambhore: 10 Days in the Tiger Fortrees

 
Valmik Thapar (Author)
Synopsis The tiger has always evoked awe, fear, and fascination. Ranthambhore: 10 Days in the Tiger Fortress creates an engrossing, unforgettable portrait of this management creature, featuring many images of tigers in the wild never before captured on Film. The book is as much about the rich and vibrant habitat that makes Ranthambhore one of the finest places to watch wild tigers up close, as about a man who over the years has developed a special intimacy with the tiger: Valmik Thapar, after thirty-three years of tiger-watching, finds himself in Ranthambhore once again where he conferences spending his finest ten-day stretch ever: An authentic record of what Ranthambhore has to offer to the keen observer, the more than 200 colour photographs help showcase every incident that took place as the author tracked six tigers in the course of ten days. Tigers reigning over lakes, forts, ruins, chhatris, and Ranthambhore's famous 600-700-year-old banyan tree -the arresting photographs, captured moment to moment, meld into one another to create a visual continuity perhaps experience only in motion pictures. A must-read for tiger enthusiasts and all animal lovers. For the record, in June 2008 two tigers from Ranthambhore National Park were shifted to Sariska Tiger reserve in an effort to reintroduce the big cats at sariska where the last tiger had disappeared by 2004. 
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About the author

Valmik Thapar

Valmik Thapar, one of the world’s leading tiger conservationists, earned a degree in social anthropology from Delhi University in 1972 and since then has dedicated his life to tiger research and preservation. Thapar has been associated with Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan, northern India, for nearly thirty years. He is the founder and director of the Ranthambhore Foundation, which he created in 1987, an organization devoted to maintaining the ecological balance necessary to protect the tiger and its habitats all over India. Thapar is the author of ten books on tigers, most recently Tiger: The Ultimate Guide (2004), The Cult of the Tiger (2002), Saving Wild Tigers (2001), Wild Tigers of Ranthambhore (2000), and The Land of the Tiger (1997), which accompanied a major BBC-TV series of the same name. Thapar has also written Bridge of God (2001), about the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya, and Battling for Survival (2003), an ecological history of the forests of South Asia. Thapar has appeared in and contributed to a number of documentaries. Since 1992 Thapar has been serving on several expert committees of the Indian government related to tigers and wildlife and is currently a member of the Central Empowered Committee, which was constituted by the Supreme Court of India to Monitor forests and wildlife. He lives in New Delhi.

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Bibliographic information

Title Ranthambhore: 10 Days in the Tiger Fortrees
Author Valmik Thapar
Format Hardcover
Date published: 24.10.2008
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 9780195699463
length xvi+152p., Plates; 24cm.

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