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Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha knows that the ever-shrinking forests of India mean there are few places left for a tiger to hide. When the local villagers also discover the tiger, Isha finds herself embroiled in a life-or-death cultural controversy. Isha’s crusade to save the tiger becomes the catalyst of an arduous journey of awakening and survival across the changing landscape of modernizing India. Her encounters with tribal people, elephants, and her search for the wild jungle are the source of her revelations about the human relationship to the natural world in a gripping story of determination, discovery, and coming of age.
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“A beautiful and tragic journey through India’s threatened jungles.”
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Steve Winter, National Geographic photojournalist
About Paul Rosolie
Paul Rosolie has written for National Geographic, published Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon, and had shows on Discovery Channel and Netflix. Rosolie is a naturalist, author, and award-winning wildlife filmmaker who has specialized in rainforests and endangered wildlife for over a decade. His work has helped protect over 6,000 acres of wildlife habitat in critical areas of the Amazon and India. As an author Paul’s mission is to explore the relationship between humans and nature, wild animals, and our vanishing wild places.
About Deepti Gupta
Deepti Gupta, fluent in Hindi, Urdu, and English, has an international career spread across India, Singapore, Pakistan, and the United States. As a narrator she brings an open and curious perspective to the author’s work. As an actress she has earned praise from the New York Times for her performance in the feature film Walkaway and also stars in Record/Play (a sci-fi love story) which was an official selection at Sundance 2013.