Tiger! Tiger!

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Gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. Jonathan Cape. 1:a uppl. 1984. 218 s. Inbunden. Bok på engelska: Has glossary and bibliography. The author has spent twenty-five years studying and working to support the threatened tiger population of northern India. This book is the story. Has map end papers front and back. - Kunwar Billy" Arjan Singh (15 August 1917 ? 1 January 2010) was an Indian hunter turned conservationist and author. He was the first who tried to reintroduce tigers and leopards from captivity into the wild. Billy Arjan Singh died peacefully at his original farmhouse Jasbir Nagar on 1 January 2010. Kunwar "Billy" Arjan Singh was born in Gorakhpur on 15 August 1917 as the second son of Kunwar Jasbir Singh, CIE (1887?1942), a member of the royal Ahluwalia dynasty of Kapurthala. His grandfather was Raja Harnam Singh, Raja Maharaj Singh was his uncle, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was his aunt and his elder brother was Air Vice-Marshal Kunwar Jaswant Singh, PVSM (1915?1963) In 1940, Singh was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the British Indian Army and was posted to the south of Iraq. Upon his return to India he purchased a farm in the remote district of Lakhimpur Kheri and built himself a home ? named in honour of his father ? Jasbir Nagar. He settled down to a life of farming and hunting. Nearly ten years later, he also acquired an estate on the borders of the forestry reserve at Dudhwa. This came to be known as Tiger Haven and it is there that he lived for most of the rest of his life. For his work in conservation, Singh was widely honoured. He received the Padma Shri in 1975, one of India's highest civilian national awards. This award was closely followed by the World Wildlife Gold Medal in 1976, then the Order of the Golden Ark only a year later as well as the Lifetime Award for Tiger Conservation. In 2004, at the age of 86, Billy Arjan Singh received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award ? a global honour administered by the World Wildlife Fund ? in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international conservation. He has been honored subsequently with several more awards, including the Padma Bhushan in 2006. To ensure that his work in conservation continued, Singh established the Tiger Heaven Society in 1992. The Society's aims include preserving Tiger Haven and sponsoring research into wildlife."