Table of Contents

Preface

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

6 Before the fall: Trowenna

7 A land in need of taming

8 Tall tales, tiger men and bounties

9 Them bloody useless things'

10 A bad finish: 7 September 1936

11 A lost object of awe

12 We wake up too late

13 The tiger in commerce and art

14 Beating a seventy-year hiccup: cloning

15 Sightings and the science of survival

Notes

Select bibliography

Index

About the Author

David Owen is the author of nine novels, most of which are set in Tasmania. He is the editor of the Australian literary journal Island and this is his first work of non-fiction.