British forestry officer and conservationist Sir Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot was posted in India — and, briefly, in Myanmar — under various posts during the Colonial era. During this period, he closely observed the forest life, especially in the old North and North-West provinces of the country, writing about the need for regeneration of the sal trees and the treatment of the long-leafed deciduous trees like the shisham and khair. Eardley-Wilmot’s study was instrumental in the establishment of the Forest Research Institute in India. In 1911, he published a slim book called The Life of a Tiger. This has now been republished (Talking Cub) with a new cover, featuring Argentine painter Julia Wernicke’s painting of the big cats.

Sir Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot