Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Colonel Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya during the early years of this century. The stories also contain incidental information on flora, fauna and village life, making this book delightful reading.
Product Details
- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: Oxford; Reprint edition (1 May 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195622553
- ISBN-13: 978-0195622553
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm
About the Author
Jim Corbett was a hunter, conservationist, author and colonel in the British army. His fanatical sense of hunting made him a hero in the eyes of the Indian villagers who would come to ask his help for killing tigers. He loved photography and took many beautiful photographs. He would educate school children on how to safeguard and conserve natural forests. He helped form India's first national park in the Kumaon region. Panthera Tigris Corbetti was the tiger who was named after him.
Review
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)
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