A review by yojimbo96
No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History by Dane Huckelbridge

adventurous informative reflective tense medium-paced

2.5

The story of the Champawat tiger can be summed up in a 30 minute YouTube video and this books doesn’t really add any new information specifically about the tiger hunt. It fills the rest of the runtime (I listened to the audiobook) with a very brief history of the area, a brief description of tiger’s abilities and biology, a brief history of Jim Corbett, and a brief description of a Indian cultural beliefs about tigers. All of which are not in depth enough for me to find necessary when I’m looking for a book about hunting a specific tiger. I find all the extra topics confusing when they are spliced randomly without a good through line. If events were told chronologically with the background information in chapters following an introduction I’d find the addition of those topics more tolerable. In the end it’s a fine book but nothing special, pretty mid.