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    Man-eaters of Kumaon

    By Jim Corbett and Raymond Sheppard

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    This is the Merlin Unwin Books edition and is the only one currently available which contains the iconic Raymond Sheppard illustrations which capture with remarkable verve and accuracy the dramatic highlight of each story. All royalties from the sale of the Merlin Unwin Books hardback edition go to the Corbett tiger reserve in India.

    The presence of a man-eating tiger in the Indian province of Naini Tal spread fear and panic throughout the impoverished rural community. This tigress had already killed 434 villagers by the time Jim Corbett was approached to track and despatch her in 1907.

    These thrilling and moving tales are Corbett’s first-hand accounts as, over the ensuing 29 years and at the request of desperate locals, he expertly tracks and kills various specific tigers and leopards which had become man-eaters, driven to this by injury or extreme old age.

    No one understood the ways of the Indian jungle better than Corbett. A skilled tracker, he preferred to hunt alone and on foot, sometimes accompanied by his small dog Robin. Corbett derived intense happiness from observing wildlife and he was a fervent conservationist as well as a tracker and ace shot.

    He empathised with the impoverished people amongst whom he lived, in what is today Uttarakhand, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMerlin Unwin Books
    Release dateOct 15, 2017
    ISBN9781910723722
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    Man-eaters of Kumaon
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    Jim Corbett

    Jim Corbett (1875–1955) was born in Naini Tal, northern India, the eighth child of Christopher and Mary Corbett. His father was postmaster there. Jim as a youth spent all his spare time in the surrounding jungle, mesmerised by its rich flora and fauna. Few local people owned guns and were helpless in the face of the occasional man-eating tigers which marauded at intervals across miles of mountainous jungle in what is today Uttarakhand, killing hundreds of poor land-workers. Jim devoted three decades to stalking and despatching these tigers on their behalf. He later established India’s first tiger sanctuary at Naini Tal. On retirement he moved with his sister Maggie to Kenya where he died at the age of 79.

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    • 5/5
      An amazing book, should be read by every young man and woman
    • 4/5
      better than i thought.
    • 4/5
      What makes Jim Corbett's "Man-Eaters of Kuamon" so wonderful is his eye for detail. Corbett traveled on foot across India hunting man-eating tigers from in the 1920's and 1930's. His book, not only reports his adventures stalking tigers, but gives a great sense of the jungle and a small taste of the people living in the region. His tales are so descriptive, you can really imagine yourself next to him hearing a tiger's roar disconcertingly close by as you're crouched in the bush or up a tree. Very entertaining reading.
    • 3/5
      We are so fortunate to live where we are the top of the food chain. When man is not at the top of the food chain it is harder to get their than you think even with our superior mind and weapons.
    • 3/5
      His team tracked them, he shot them, and then he wrote it up. Leopards are more dangerous than Tigers, who are meaner than Lions. This is a curious by-way of British Indian history. I first encountered this book as a Reader's Digest Condensed Book, and it wears well on the re-read.
    • 3/5
      Interesting classic book about British man in India who helped kill some man-eating tigers. Tigers do not prey on humans as a rule but will if injured or develop a liking for it. Some parts exciting. Appropriate start to Year of the Tiger!t
    • 5/5
      Such a nice book I just read it and started reading it 3 hours ago
    • 5/5
      Amazing, just makes u sway through pages, very enriching experiences and wildlife history of our India.
    • 2/5
      For me, this is clearly a 'Don't judge a book by it's cover' case, but in the other way around.A was randomly searching for a book one day and stumbled upon this one. I found the cover quite amazing and the synopsis written in the back felt like a cliff hanger of some sort of adventure book. But boy was I wrong when I read it! Turns out that it is one of those books which are filled with referrence-like informations and fails the reader to grasp or visualize the incidents that were happening, or at least that was how I felt. Considering when it was originally written, I cannot blame the conservationist. Reading the Hindi terms in English is also a jaw breaking experience. All I can say is that it could have been better.If this book wasn't the last poly packed piece in the store, then I would have read it a bit and would have thought twice before buying it.
    • 5/5
      Here's another book I've read over and over again. First acquired in paperback when I was 12, I read it until it started to disintegrate (and I'm careful with books). About 30 years ago I was able to procure, used, the above edition, and I have no idea how many more times I've read it. Like Velocity, but in a totally different genre, Corbett draws you in, painting word-pictures of the art of hunting man-eating tigers, the Indian hill country, and the wonderful people who live there. Still today, over a half century later, the book still captivates me.

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    • 3/5
      This book had the potential to be so much more than it ended up being. The author, a devoted naturalist and sportsman, certainly experienced a life deserving of biography and saved countless hundreds of native Indians through his eradication of man-eating tigers and leopards in the early half of the 20th century.However, while the author is amazingly meticulous in describing the settings of his adventures, the paragraphs become hopelessly confusing and impossible to follow. Never have I seen writing so in need of diagrams, drawings or other visual aids to enhance the writer’s stories. With the exception of one laughably unhelpful map in the back of the book, there are no such aids included in the book. A good editor or artist could easily take the author’s prose and develop diagrams, and doing so would improve the reading experience immeasurably.It is also hard to believe that there is not a single photograph in the entire book, though I see reference in the comments to previous editions that did in fact contain photos. I cannot imagine the thought process that went into publishing an edition that contains neither diagrams nor photographs.Finally, the book contains numerous spelling and usage errors as well as transposed pages in some places. All in all, a very unprofessional job of editing and publishing what could otherwise be a first class reading experience.

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