Jim Corbett - Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon [eBook] {train_wreck}

Temple Tiger and more Man-eaters of Kumaon
by Jim Corbett (Author), Raymond Sheppard (Illustrator)

Oxford University Press (March 17, 1989), Language: English
Oxford India Paperback series
ISBN-10: 019562257X
ISBN-13: 978-0195622577

The last of Colonel Jim Corbett's books on his unique and enthralling hunting experiences in India, this volume concludes the narrative of his adventures with tigers begun in the famous Man-Eaters of Kumaon. These stories maintain, perhaps even supercede, the high standard of the earlier classic collection. Corbett saves his best story of all for the long concluding chapter in this volume, describing, in The Talla Des Man-Eater, how he embarked on what he feared might be a fatal last test of skill and endurance. As always, he writes with an acute awareness of all jungle sights and sounds, choosing words charged with a great love of humanity, birds, and animals. His calm and straightforward modesty heightens the excitement and suspense of these experiences, in which he continuously risks his life to free the Indian tarai of dangerous man-eaters.

Jim Corbett, naturalist, shikari, and conservationist is famous for his tales of hunting in the Indian Jungle. Many years before the issues of conservation became understood, Corbett was obsessed with the jungle and animals of the Kumaon hills. Corbett's most famous kill was the Champawat Tiger, a female Bengal Tiger responsible for an estimated 436 human deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon area of India, mostly during the 19th century. Champawat's attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger. She was shot in 1907 by Jim Corbett. The Indochinese Tiger (Panthera Tigress Corbett) was named in his honor.