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Eighteen tides and a tiger

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A book review published at goodbooks  on 22nd June, 2017. Book   Title: Eighteen tides and a tiger Author: Anjana Basu Details   Language: English Pages: 140 Price: Rs 250/- ISBN: 978-81 - 7993 - 649 - 8 Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), 2017 The text on Goodbooks here . Thanks are due to the team at goodbooks.  Review Text   Sunderbans is today one of the few tiger reserves, if not the only, which retains an air of mystery. This is not only on account of its landscape – ecologically distinct from other tiger reserves in the country – but also on account of absence of the intensive jeep safaris (tourism) and extensive camera-trapping (research) that one has begun to associate tiger reserves with. Historically too it appears not to have been a hunting ground unlike some of its well-known counterparts. April 2017 brought the news of Indian Wolf having been photographed here for the first time! On the...