Yuriy Mikhaylovich Jankovsky’s childhood fell on a time when tigers were irreconcilable enemies of animal husbandry. They attacked not only horses and deer, but also cows, pigs, and dogs. At fifteen, Yuriy and his brother Aleksandr killed a tiger that had taken a horse’s companion and was tearing up the snow—thrashing the beloved “uncle” Platon Fedorov. In the book “Half a Century of Hunting Tigers,” Yuriy Jankovsky—an excellent hunter and connoisseur of nature—tells vividly and engagingly about his taiga wanderings and about tiger hunting full of danger.