Tiger Tiger Author:Charly Baumann In a book teeming with colorful yarns of circus life, Charly Baumann chronicles his exciting adventures during a long career as "cat" trainer. — Since World War II he has worked with the top European circuses and is now performance director for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. Baumann says it was like changing "from drums to violins" when... more » he switched from training lions -- after a lion gave him his closest brush with death, dragging him around its cage -- to his present specialty, tigers. Tigers, in fact, take center stage in his book as he describes that vanishing species, the Royal Bengal. He breeds his own, and readers will find his account of his experiences with them fascinating -- he is matchmaker (tigers must "fall in love" before they mate), midwife and nursemaid. Many photos.« less