Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh - Hardcover

Hart-Davis, Duff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8174364056 ISBN 13: 9788174364050

Publisher: Roli Books Pvt Ltd, 2005

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Synopsis:

Popularly known as India's latter-day Jim Corbett and 'tiger man', 87-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man. At Tiger Haven, his home in a magical spot on the edge of the jungle in UP, Billy's experiments with bringing up three orphaned leopards, and also Tara, a tiger cub which he imported from a zoo in England - shot him into both fame and controversy. His aim was to see if Tara's instincts would make her revert to the wild when she became mature. They did - and over the years she produced four litters of cubs, thus proving his contention that it is possible to supplement dwindling wild stocks with zoo-born animals. But when it was discovered that the tigress had Siberian genes in her ancestry, he was accused of having introduced a 'genetic cocktail' into the jungle. Undeterred, Billy remained a champion of the forest and its denizens. It was almost entirely due to his advocacy that in 1973 the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, authorized the creation of the Dudhwa National Park. Now, in his eighties, comes recognition for his efforts: In March 2005 he received the J.

About the Author:

Duff Hart-Davis, brother of Adam Hart-Davis, has written or edited more than thirty books, including the acclaimed Fauna Britannica (Weidenfeld). From 1986 to 2001 he contributed a weekly column on country matters to the Independent. The author has made many visits to Billy Arjan Singh's home at Tiger Haven and has also trekked in Nepal and Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Roli Books Pvt Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 8174364056
• ISBN 13: 9788174364050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Singh Arjan