Tiger benign. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, tigers are fiercer and more ruthless than lions. The tiger's tail appears in stories from countries including China and Korea, it being generally inadvisable to grasp a tiger by the tail. In William Blake's poem in the "Songs of Experience", titled "The Tyger," the tiger is a menacing and fearful animal. In Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize winning novel "Life of Pi", the protagonist, surviving shipwreck for months in a small boat, somehow avoids being eaten by the other survivor, a large Bengal tiger. The story was adapted in Ang Lee's 2012 feature
Richard Bordeaux Parker Richard Bordeaux Parker Richard Bordeaux Parker (July 3, 1923, in the Fort Stotsenburg, Philippines – January 7, 2011, in Washington, D.C.) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and an expert on the Middle East. Parker served as Ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco. He was the brother of David Stuart Parker. Parker was the son of Col. Roscoe Parker, a U.S. Army officer (Cavalry), and grew up in U.S. Army posts across the southwest with a stint in Vermont and another in Kansas. He attended Kansas State University, graduating in 1943. After college, Parker served as an infantry officer