(A1) **Summary - This is a great book to learn more about tigers. Much information is given, from birth up until the tiger is on his or her own and hunting alone. Month by month, at most a few months are grouped together if nothing much happens during that time, we see how the cubs mature and learn. There is a small map that portrays where the tigers were/are living in relation to the rest of the world. I think the scariest thing is that the book says that by 2010 there will be hardly any tigers left. At the time this was published the world was losing more than 400 tigers each year with about 6-7,000 left in the entire world in 2000. Of the eight subspecies of tigers that used to roam the earth, there are now five. The Caspian tiger has been extinct since the 1950's and the Javan and Bali tigers are extinct as well. How sad. An entire subspecies of a beautiful animal - gone. Because of us. All because of the things people have done, and maybe more importantly, the things people have not done. As beautiful as these animals are, there are still one or two pictures that just looking at brings about a distinct sense of fear. There is one picture of two male tigers fighting although it's fairly tame.#nonfiction#animals#hardcover#tiger#signed#autograph#rare#valmikthapar