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Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains 10 stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of the twentieth century. The text also contains incidental information on flora, fauna and village life. Seven of the stories were first published privately as Jungle Stories .
Nov 11, 2006 · There are no heroics in this extraordinarily brave man's work. He admits his mistakes freely and with humour, and was often in a state of real, well-informed fear. His friends ranged from the highest in the government to the peasants he loved, and he brought them together in a way few have done.
Man-Eater of Kumaon is a 1948 American adventure film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Sabu, Wendell Corey and Joanne Page. The film was made after the success of the Jim Corbett book Man-Eaters of Kumaon, published by Oxford University Press in 1944.
Man-Eater of Kumaon: Directed by Byron Haskin. With Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page, Morris Carnovsky. A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village.
Jim Corbett (1875 - 1955) was an experienced hunter, who was called upon by the Government in India to track down and kill man-eating tigers which were terrorising villagers in the Kumaon district in Uttarakhand, which borders Nepal and Tibet.
Dec 1, 2017 · 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.
Man Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, one which offers ten fascinating and spine-tingling tales of pursuing and shooting tigers in the Indian Himalayas during the...
