Dhan Gopal Mukherji (1890-1936) grew up in Bengal before he moved to Japan and then the United States. In the US he started his writing career and went on to win much acclaim for his books. Edward James ‘Jim’ Corbett (b. 1875) was an Anglo-Indian hunter and tracker-turned-conservationist author and naturalist. After giving up hunting Corbett played a key role in protecting India’s wildlife especially the endangered Bengal tiger and used his influence in the provincial government to establish a national reserve for these tigers. Raghu Chundawat is a renowned conservation biologist whose main studies have been on snow leopards and tigers. His pioneering ten-year research on the Panna tigers was immortalized in the BBC documentary Tigers of the Emerald Forest. S. Eardley-Wilmot (1852-1929) was a British civil servant forestry officer and conservationist who worked primarily in India and Burma (now Myanmar) and served as Inspector-General of Forests. He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1873 and was appointed to the old North-West Provinces and Oudh region of colonial India. In recognition of his conservation-led method and unorthodox approach to forestry in India and Burma Eardley-Wilmot became a Knight Commander of Order of the Indian Empire in 1911.
<p>Three thrilling books from the Indian jungle on the big cat who rules our imagination.</p><p>The books in the set by legendary writers of nature and wildlife are:</p><p>Fierce-Face the Tiger: About a young tiger cub Fierce-Face who has to overcome odds to learn to survive in the jungle.</p><p>Tiger! Tiger!: In this wonderful collection of writings by writers old and new get to know the amazing big cat in a whole new way.</p><p>The Life of a Tiger: A captivating story about the life of a fierce tiger set in the enchanting world of the Indian jungle.</p>
