For most people, the closest they'll ever get to a Tasmanian tiger is staring at one on the label of a bottle of Cascade or driving behind a car with Tasmania licence plates. Everywhere you look in Tasmania, there are pictures, symbols, signs and designs of the Apple Isle's most famous resident, yet the last captive animal died in 1936, and according to scientists the species is officially extinct. Or is it? In the tradition of bestsellers Blokes and Sheds and Real Aussies Drive Utes, Tiger Tales: Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger is full of great yarns and larger-than-life, country-hewn Aussie characters. At turns haunting, bewitching and provocative, it showcases 'tiger hunter' Col Bailey's favourite Tassie tiger stories, gleaned from his own research and experiences, from mysterious sightings over the past sixty years in both Tasmania and the mainland, and from interviews with old for-trappers and bushmen from Tasmania's great wilderness regions. Book jacket.