Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh

by Duff Hart-Davis

Billy Arjan Singh is one of the world's foremost conservationists. Living alone with his tigers in a jungle reserve, he has spent the last fifty years battling corruption and bureaucracy to become a tenacious champion of wildlife in India. Now in his eighties, he recently received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award. Duff Hart-Davies has written or edited more than 30 books, including the acclaimed Fauna Britannica .

Genres: Wildlife

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Peter Duff Hart-Davis, generally known as Duff Hart-Davis was a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who wrote for The Independent. He was married to Phyllida Barstow and had one son and one daughter, the journalist Alice Hart-Davis. He lived at Owlpen, in Gloucestershire.

Reviews

[Toshita · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the story of Billy Arjan Singh, one of the world's foremost conservationists. He has worked to increase the population of cats in India. He lived alone with his tigers and leopards. Billy Arjan Singh had spent the last fifty years battling bureaucracy and corruption to fight for the wildlife in India. He recently received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award while in his eighties. This is one incredible story of a very determined man.

I was a bit hesitant when picking up Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh because I generally don't read non-fiction. I expected it to be a bit boring. I was right; partially. I found out that I enjoyed the parts that talked about the work Billy Arjan Singh did. I found the history of his family a bit boring. I was amazed at the amount of time, money and love that Billy Arjan Singh invested into his cats. I was surprised to learn that Billy Arjan Singh was gun-crazy as a child and that he shot anything that moved including a tiger or two. Another reason I that I enjoyed Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh was because it showed me that very ordinary people can do extra-ordinary things.

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[Ahmed Wajeeh]

A really good book , life and struggles of a great mans single handed efforts to preserve and conserve wildlife , and of the courage of Arjan Singh Billy.