"The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival," by John Vaillant, Knopf, 352 pp., $26.95. This nonfiction account of a man tracking a tiger in Russia鈥檚 far east reads like a detective story. (CSMonitor.com review, 8/31/10)
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