India: The Tiger's Roar [Hardcover]

'It is at once a well-researched factfile and a riveting
storybook, not your regular Lonely Planet.' by Rohini Mohan

From her infancy the author has been fascinated by that most magnificent and elusive of beasts, the tiger. Her second book on India, India: The Tiger's Roar, is a personal account of her pilgramage to India's great wildlife parks and tiger sanctuaries. In India: The Tiger's Roar, Aline Dobbie examines many of India's most famous wildlife parks and tiger sanctuaries and provides a comprehensive study of Ranthambhore, Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Corbett Tiger Reserves as well as detailed backgrounds to Nagarahole, Kaziranga, Pench, Bharatpur and Gir National Park, home of the rare Asiatic Lion. Anyone considering a trip to watch India's wildlife and tigers in particular will find this book an indispensable and entertaining source of information. In addition, the author highlights the continuing threat to India's tigers and the on-going efforts to protect them. Any westerner who has visited this country will find Dobbie's India familiar. But it is the author's ability to see the country from the perspective of an outsider as well as that of a native that gives her writing a unique perspective. She is able to get close to her subject in a way that would be difficult for the casual traveller to do. Indeed, Dobbie is a Hindi speaker and uses her many contacts and childhood reminiscences to great effect throughout this book. The reader will also find valuble information on some of India's historical gems such as Gwalior, Orchha, Sonagiri, Mandu, Sanchi and Bhimbetka as well as the hill station of Nainital. India: The Tiger's Roar is certainly not a travel guide, nor a guide to the wildlife of India, although it is an excellent source of information on both subjects. Instead it is a heady blend of travelogue and personal insight, cultural and political philosophy, anecdotes, cautionary tales, historical and religious references and a thesis on the state of Indian wildlife conservation.

In India: The Tiger's Roar, Aline Dobbie examines many of
India's most famous wildlife parks and tiger sanctuaries and provides a
comprehensive study of Ranthambhore, Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Corbett Tiger
Reserves as well as detailed backgrounds to Nagarahole, Kaziranga, Pench,
Bharatpur and Gir National Park, home of the rare Asiatic Lion. Anyone
considering a trip to watch India's wildlife and tigers in particular will
find this book an indispensable and entertaining source of information. In
addition, the author explores the continuing threat to India's tigers and
the on-going efforts to protect them. Any westerner who has visited this
country will find Dobbie's India familar. But it is the author's ability
to see the country through the eyes of an outsider as well as that of a
native that gives her writing a unique perspective. She is able to get
close to her subject in a way that would be difficult for the casual
traveller to do. Indeed, Dobbie is a Hindi speaker and uses her many
contacts and childhood reminiscences to great effect throughout this book.
The reader will also find valuable information on some of India's
historical gems such as Gwalior, Orchha, Sonagiri, Mandu, Sanchi and
Bhimbetka as well as the hill station of Nainital.

I was determined to bring to the attention of intelligent
travellers the sheer beauty and scale of India's great wildlife resources.
The Tiger is truly King of the Jungle and an animal for whom I have had the
utmost admiration and respect since a tiny child; I first saw a tiger
fleetingly from the back of an elephant in 1952. In 2002 I had the great
good fortune to have ten sightings of tiger from the back of elephants,
plus jeeps. It is a supreme wonderful moment to see these great beautiful
animals in all their glory. It fills me with fury to think that the greed
and corruption and senseless myth of tiger parts enhancing peoples' sexual
prowess plus the Tibetans attention seeking tribal dances adorned in these
precious animals' striking skins are the cause of the tigers near
extinction. I do my best to help all the excellent conservationists who
are doing their utmost to compel the Indian Government to take action in
this regard.

India: The Tiger's Roar is certainly not a travel guide, nor a
guide to the wildlife of India, although it is an excellent source of
information on both subjects. Instead it is a heady blend of travelogue
and personal insight, cultural and political philosophy, anecdotes,
cautionary tales, historical and religious references and a thesis on the
state of Indian wildlife conservation

Detailed coverage of India's wildlife parks and tiger
sanctuaries including Ranthambhore, Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Corbett Tiger
Reserves.
Backgrounds to Nagarahole, Kaziranga, Bharatpur, Pench and Gir National
Parks.
Valuable information on some of India's historical gems such as Gwalior,
Orchha, Sonagiri, Mandu, Sanchi and Bhimbetka as well as the hill station
of Nainital.
A commentary on conservation efforts to protect the Indian tiger.
Wonderful wildlife photography throughout.
"India: The Tiger's Roar will prove indispensable for anyone planning a
trip to India's wildlife parks or tiger sanctuaries."

Aline Dobbie was born in a spent her childhood in India where her father, Colonel Frank Rose, was an officer in the Indian Army. She returned to her ancestral home of Scotland at the age of sixteen but her affection for the land of her birth has not diminished. Since her departure Dobbie has lived and travelled in various parts of the world and has visited India on numerous occasions, writing prolifically on the country and its people. Dobbie is a speaker of Hindi, and this, along with her Indian heritage, affords her a rare level of insight into this fascinating and complex country. The author is married to Graham Dobbie. They have two grown-up sons and two grandchildren. They live in the Scottish Borders.