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The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans | 
 enlarge | Author: Sy Montgomery
Creator: Eleanor Briggs
Publisher: Sandpiper
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 246297
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0618494901
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.756095414
EAN: 9780618494903
ASIN: 0618494901
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
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Along the Bay of Bengal, between the countries of India and Bangladesh, stretches a strange and beautiful landscape?part ocean, part river, part forest. This is the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, and it is home to more tigers than anywhere else on the earth. Nowhere else do tigers live in a mangrove swamp. Nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people. Yet about three hundred people a year are killed by the tigers of the Sundarbans. And no one knows why.
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 Majestic Beasts August 31, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Men's fear and fascination of monsters have been with us since the dawn of time, and while the imagination of our forefathers was the main source for describing these beasts under the sea, up the snowy mountains or deep in the jungle, our technological and scientific age helped us to unravel a lot of these mysteries,and sadly bringing a lot of nature's animals to the brink of extinction in the process.
Yet, this fascination, and apprehension remain with us to this day.
While Jaws was responsible for keeping a lot of people out of the water for a while, me included, the portrayal of the great white shark was too over sensualized to be scientifically accurate, something author Peter Benchely tried desperately to redress years later.
The man eating Lions of Tsavo, were real yet a rarity in the history of man against 'beast, a historical incident that was all but forgotten, to be revived later with the film Ghost and Darkness.
Yet there is another animal out there, and most specifically in the Sundarban region of India, bordering Bangladesh, who also feasts on people each year, and who very little is known about, a mystery as dense as the region it inhabits,(one of the last true wilderness in the world,) the majestic tiger.
And to that end, Sy Montgomery has done a wondeful job in investigating this elusive animal, writing a unique book of its kind, that is part natural history, part detective story.
The Sundarban tigers are unlike any tigers in India, or in the world. They regularily attack humans, even snatching people from boats in the middle of the river.They are both feared and revered by the locals as creatures of divine power/source(a phenomenon that in itself has allowed many wild animals to coexist in relative peace with humans)
However, the plight of the tiger is one tragic story, (some subspecies extinct while others following suit in an alraming speed) and the impression I got from Montgomery's book is not one of fear, although there are some scary moments in the book,tracking the elusive tiger, but one of respect for this beautiful creature. An impression that convinced me these attacks were against people going inside the tiger's territory, invading its lair, as opposed to the well documented cases of man-eating leopards and wolfs that boldly invade human's territory.
Saving the Tiger at all costs is another impression I got from this book, a need that becomes ever more pressing, realizing the relenteless onslaught from loss of territory or poaching the tiger faces every day.
By all account buy this book, and I guarantee you too will be fascinated by the story of when that beautiful animal do what it is instinctively programmed to do to survive.
Cool! December 19, 2001
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
I never knew that there are man-eating tigers until I read this book.On an island off the coast of India where for some reason the tigers eat people. Scientists don't know why. This book is very interesting and I recomend it!
 Limited Text March 1, 2008
Luis Leyva Navarro (Guadalajara, Mexico)
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.
Fifth Graders love this book! May 19, 2008
J. O'Brien (Massachusetts)
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!
 BORING AND UNINFORMATIVE October 4, 2008
film lover 60 (Arizona)
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.
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