Cover
About the Authors
Map
Imprint
Title page
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
1 What's in a name?
2 In the beginning: evolution
3 At the end: extinction
4 'Pathetically little is known'
5 A rugged and determined front: Van Diemen's land settled
6 Before the Fall: Lutruwita
7 A land in need of taming
8 Tall tales, tiger men and bounties
9 Capturing tigers by their tales
10 'Them bloody useless things' 1888-1930
11 A bad finish: 7 September 1936
12 A lost object of awe

13 We wake up too late
14 The tiger in commerce and art
15 Cloning
16 Sightings and the science of survival
Picture section
Notes
Select bibilography
Index