Man-eaters of Kumaon
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1910723436 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He refused bounties and lived simply. Roaming daily from his home, Jim was fascinated as a young boy by the surrounding jungle and its flora and fauna. He retired with his sister to Kenya where he died aged 79.British artist and illustrator best known for illustrating Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. His father was the
"Incredible Life Story" according to JoyceBoudreau. I knew this book was old and didn't quite know what to expect. From the first sentence to the last it captivated and held me on the edge of my chair. Super book about an incredible man who has super-human courage. I was amazed at the ferocious habits of these tigers and how terrifying life is for the people of India living with these animals in their midst. The writin. A real page turner, an exotic adventure This is a real page turner, a book that grips you from the very first page. the writing is excellent and as other reviewers have pointed out, you feel you are right there on a tiger hunt. Man eaters, both Tigers and Leopards, something people even today must deal with in rural India. A simple task like getting some water from a nearby stream is a daunting task wrought. True and stunning – the fascinating edge-of-the-chair accounts of stopping man-eaters as only a world-class hunter can relate. Jim Corbett was raised in the jungles of India and learned the sights and sounds at an early age. On many occasions, he was the expert to whom all others turned when no one else was able to stop the depredations of these man-eaters. And many of the man-eaters, having been hunted by amateurs, quickly learned caution, stalking people, patience, and above all hungered fo
`It was not only the ripping-yarn action of the stories and the engrossing narratives that held me, I was just as much taken by the man who recounted them. Through the most riveting episodes, his compassionate character and quiet voice seemed personally to speak to me The book has never paled, never dated, and I have never forgotten its significance or the astonishing, gentle man who wrote it.' Martin Booth, The Sunday Times --The Sunday Times
He derived intense happiness from his observations of wildlife and was an important conservationist as well as a tracker and ace shot. He empathised with the impoverished people amongst whom he lived, in what is today Uttrakhand, and he established India’s first tiger sanctuary there.Corbett’s writing is as immediate and accessible today as it was when first published in 1944.. A skilled tracker, Corbett preferred to hunt alone and on foot, sometimes accompanied by his small dog Robin. The presence of a man-eating tiger in the impoverished rural community of Nainital spread fear and panic among the terrified locals. This tigress had already devoured over 460 victims by the time Jim Corbett was approached to track and kill her in 1907.These ten thrilling and moving tales are Corbett’s first-hand accounts as he expertly tracks and kills many tigers and two leopards which had become man-eaters, driven to this by injury or extreme old age.No one understood the signs of the jungle better than Corbett