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Most of Jim Corbett's books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya.This volume, however, consists of a single story, often considered the most exciting of all Corbett's jungle tales.He gives a carefully-detailed account of a notorious leopard that terrorized life in the hills of the colonial United Provinces.This story represents Corbett's most sustained and unique effort. ... Read more

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India daily life 1905 to 1947
Jim Corbett has in a quite dignified manner captured the very essence of India at the earlier part of the 20th century.
While the political situation has fortunately been largly ignored the day to day life of the average Indian citizen living in North Eastern India has been captured a quite beautiful way as an interesting vignette running along side the big cats who were causing so many problems for so many.

The huge respect Jim Corbett has for the country it's people and the very creatures he is out to stop hunting humans comes through so beautifully as to envelop the reader bringing them back in to a time now long forgotten.

We may think we know misery or deprivation but until you read the stories of real people living in such abject poverty, the terror some went through in their last moments is in itself a humbling thing.
Society for us today is so very safe yet for those who had so very little nature itself was in sync reminding us the reader of today in our sterile cities just what it is like to be part of the food chain.

Every young mind should be introduced to these stories to absorb & grow upon for life.

Like all of Corbett's books...
Like all of Corbett's books, this one is a page-turner that never, ever gets boring.

Awesome
One of the most fascinating, entrataining and vibrant real life adventure book I've ever read. I hope my English gets good enough to allow me to re-read it (this would be the 4th time) in its original language.

The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
This is a great book to read. Colonel Edward James Corbett's narrative is a spensive true story about a man-eating leopard that terrorized 50,000 pilgrims in the Grawal District in India by killing over 125 people. For 18 years from 1918 until 1926 he stalked the hills of India. Unlike the other classics that Corbett wrote, this is only one story that is full of leopard information and it truly is a great man-eater story that is one of the best that we have to read. The book never ceases to amaze me when I read it. It is truly a page turner. Leopards are beautiful animals, but when they turn man-eater then it can be the worst and I think this book proves it.

Hard to put it down..
Corbett's persistence pays off. It is a great read about hunting the most clever cats of the Indian jungle. Only Corbett can tell a predator hunting story like no other. Must read!!! ... Read more

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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.This new edition of Jungle Lore offers Corbett's own story of his life and career.At the heart of the narrative is a cry for sensitivity to the fragility of nature, and despair over mankind's divorce from his environment--a message as vibrant today as it ever was. ... Read more

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Great reading
I haven't read a boring book by this author.I don't think he has the ability to write a boring book.This is a "page-turner."Also, the guy doesn't make himself out to be some great hunter.He is humble, which makes me able to like the guy.

a lost world
Reading Jim Corbett makes the reader realize how much of the natural world has been lost in just the last century, and what a profound loss it has been.Having spent some time in this part of India, I can recognize some of what he writes about, but so much has been lost.Corbett's committment to saving the lives of all the hill people being killed by man-eaters is something his critics should remember; far from being a wanton killer of animals, he ruined his health spending so many nights out lashed alone to trees waiting for his own possible death, hardly the image of the colonial killer of animals...he also devoted the last years of his life to saving India's remaining tigers, and stopped hunting them.

This book is a great look back into the recent past, a kind of elegy for a lost time and an insight into a man with a great heart.

My all-time favorite author
Jim Corbett is one of my all-time-favorite authors. I have read all his books, but the one I love the most is `Jungle Lore'. I have the first Indian edition of the book. It belonged to my dad who bought it in 1971 for 2.50 Rupees (which is roughly 5 cents)!

Corbett loved the jungle. He is considered the greatest tiger hunter India ever knew, and the reason he was so successful was not only because he knew the Kumaon jungle like the back of his hand, but also because he understood the jungle. He could understand the sounds of animals and birds. He could even make those sounds with great accuracy. He could look at the pug marks of animals on a mud path and tell a whole story of what happened there that morning. He had a sixth sense of jungle which he called his "jungle sensitiveness".

This book is not about hunting. This is a book about nature. Corbett writes with lot of humbleness and humor. One cannot stop admiring his courage and his vast knowledge of the jungle after reading this book.

The book of nature has no beginning, as it has no end
Jim Corbett - who is more famous for his books on hair raising encounters with man eating tigers and leopards - had also written two slightly different books: Jungle Lore and My India. Jungle Lore has fascinating accounts of Corbett's experiences in the Jungles on the foothills of Himalayas in India.

From his early childhood when he used to venture into the jungles armed with a catapult (from which he graduated to pellet-bow followed by a muzzle-loader and finally rifles),Corbett absorbed as much as he could about the way of the jungle. He says that jungle lore is not a science that can be learnt in textbooks; it can only be absorbed, little at a time, for "the book of nature has no beginning, as it has no end." Based only on his observations, Corbett describes a wide variety of birds, animals, and reptiles living in the jungles, and classifies them into different categories based on their behavior, eating habits, role in maintaining the balance of nature, etc.

Though there are certain sections of the book that describe Corbett organizing "beats" for the aristocracy (British and Indian) to hunt down tigers for sport which appear a little out of character with Corbett's avowed respect for animals (there is even a section where Corbett decides to kill a big male leopard just because he was "worth shooting"), there is no doubt that Corbett, through his books, had done more towards raising awareness on the conservation of the wild life in the jungles of India than anyone else. It's a shame that most of the jungles described in Corbett's books are slowly becoming a thing of the past, and unless desperate measures are taken, rapid population growth and indiscriminate poaching will forever deprive India of the finest of her flora and fauna.

Too much wanton killing for sport
This is a wonderfully written book on how to kill a whole bunch of animals now on the endangered species list. Jim Corbett needs no introduction of course, and 'Jungle Lore' is as beautifully written as any of Corbett's books. But there are some contradictions in Corbett's books that I find hard to understand, and Jungle Lore is no exception. In fact, whole chapters of the book are devoted to pure sport hunting in the style of his bloodthirsty contemporaries.

In Jungle Lore, we are told how Corbett killed "the biggest leopard in India" - because it was "worth shooting". No justification is given or deemed necessary!

We are also given a detailed description of a "beat" carried out to please the Viceroy of India. We learn that the hunt went so beautifully that each member of the Viceroy's party "bagged" a tiger.

Among other stories, there is one of a tiger - not a man-eater or even a cattle killer - which had been outwitting its would-be killers (a local maharajah and his minions) for years, and which was finally hunted down owing to Corbett's tracking skills.

The last couple of stories are particularly distasteful as they show, in microcosm, the demise of Indian wildlife at the hands of the British and Indian aristocracy. Though Corbett calls the tiger a 'gentleman', he does serious damage to his credibility by not recording his opposition to wanton sport-killing. Indeed, he organizes beats for the aristocracy, and frequently shoots tigers and leopards either for sport or for trivial reasons. The common assertion that Corbett ever gave up sport hunting for the camera is surprising, since Jungle Lore clearly states that he shot his last tiger after the Second World War (when he was past 70).

As a conservationist, it thus seems that Corbett is not in the same league as his great contemporary, F.W. Champion, whose books 'With a Camera in Tiger-Land' and 'The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow' inspired a generation of people to give up the gun for the camera. Champion recorded his objection to the hunting of wildlife for sport unequivocally in his books. Moreover, he actually practiced what he preached by completely ceasing to shoot after the mid 1920s, an age when tigers - and huge trophy tigers at that! - were still abundant. Contrast this with Corbett, who shot the magnificent Bachelor of Powalgarh for sport (as described in gory detail in 'The Man-Eaters of Kumaon') in 1930. It is tragic that Fred Champion - whose pioneering efforts produced the first ever photographs of wild tigers, leopards and a host of other wildlife - is hardly known.

In the midst of the descriptions of the thrills of hunting, Jungle Lore does contain material, written in Corbett's inimitable style, that describes the rich wildlife of India in a forgotten era. Classic descriptions of the battle between a pair of mating tigers and a big tusker elephant, of the method employed by otters to kill pythons, and of a battle between a crested eagle and a fishing cat are highlights of the book. So also are the descriptions of the methods of tracking wild animals, though it is frequently to put a bullet through them. Given the historical importance of the book, and also its price, it is certainly worth buying if you are interested in Indian wildlife. ... Read more

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An Indispensable Text
The discovery of these texts in 2000 and their excellent and faithful reproduction in this edition have marked a new era in Sun Ra scholarship, and another key text in Black cultural production saved from the ashes.

They were found in a chest in a house slated for demolition in Chicago marked with the words "One of Everything" in Ra's handwriting, which would have made a nice title for the text, except that coming from a figure like Ra, any declaration of the wholeness or completeness of an archive/discography sounds more like a taunt.For years Ra's intellectual and theological formation in Birmingham, and then Chicago, has been a guesswork.While lovers of Sun Ra's music have spent years tracing the emergence of Ra's revolutionary sound from New York to its bebop/hardbop origins in Chicago, listening to every note and unpressed arrangement for the moment of transition, a similar archival work has been scarcely possible in tracing the development of Ra's discourse, which plays an integral role in the music.

While the broadsheets offer few definitive answers, they will become the source text for this and many other questions of Ra's intellectual formation.They are also in themselves a powerful literary work, and read like something between Nietzsche's aphorisms and a pentecostal Ishmael Reed.

The Reach For A Better World
Being that he was a freejazz pioneer, Sun Ra was also naturally a deepspace thinker.This book collects a bunch of early dispatches directly from the uniquely racially and numerically-obsessed mind of one of the true greats of modern music.This is a dimension only hinted at in his song lyrics.It is full-on cosmic weirdness to the highest degree.The book is equally as "unreadable" as his music is "unlistenable". It taps a vein that, thank god, very few of us have access to and it shines a bright light on some of what made this complex man tick.Up until now, his primarily white audiences probably have had no clue what he was really about, unless they happened to catch his low-budge cultfilm "Space is the Place".Here, his apparent frustrations about being black in America are turned into kooky political/religious ranting prose and his fascination with numbers is woven in as if it were just part of the same sort of cosmic conversation.Madness or genius?You decide.Bonus: the book features nice scans of the original, typed papers, plus much more legible transcriptions.It's a lot to ask of a reader, but also a cool supplement to the available music.It is a very short read, thus the less-than-best rating. ... Read more

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In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail as it crossed into Laos and South Vietnam from nearby North Vietnam.

Only days after Corbett arrived at Khe Sanh, some twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base, outnumbering the American Marines seven to one. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest battles in military history.

Private First Class Corbett, an “ammo humper” in an 81mm mortar section, made do with little or no sleep for days on end. The enemy bombarded the base incessantly, and Corbett’s mortars returned the fire, day and night. Extremes of heat, cold, and fog added to the misery, as did all manner of wounds and injuries too minor to justify evacuation from frontline positions. The emotional toll was tremendous as the Marines saw their friends suffer and die every day of the siege. Corbett relates these experiences through the eyes of an eighteen year old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His story of life, death, and growing up on the front lines at Khe Sanh speaks for all of the Marines caught up in the epic siege of the Vietnam War. ... Read more

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A Must Read!!
I absolutely loved this book. John really brings you through the mind of a soldier stationed at the brutal Khe Sanh.This allows you to appreciate all of the sacrifices our troops made in Vietnam. It also shows you what the soldiers faced day in and day out on the front lines. I'll leave it at that and tell you to pick up a copy of this book if you haven't already done so! Enjoy!!

West Dickens Avenue painful memories of Khe Sanh
The Viet-Nam conflict has produced a large number of books by generals, journalists, historians, critics and participants.
I have read a number of these and find that, overall, those books written by the enlisted soldiers detailing their combat experiences to be the most riveting, informative and heartbreaking.

The lowest common denominator in the Viet-Nam era U.S. military was the draftee infantry soldier. Eighteen year olds sifted out by a draft system tilted against minorities and poor white that weren't "smart enough" to get a deferment. This is where the true blood price was paid for the decisions made in Washington. I am very cognizant of the arguments made justifying our reasons for drawing the line in Vietnam; and believe that in the context of the times those decisions were justifiable. Nonetheless those decisions resulted in subjecting young, trusting and patriotic men to a dreadful trial by fire.

West Dickens Avenue was a street sign the author found while stationed at Khe Sanh and was used to identify and personalize his foxhole. As a Marine "grunt" he lived in that named foxhole during the 77-day siege subjected to relentless rocket and mortar attacks. His telling of personal experiences during this period, what he saw, what he did, how he survived, and how other died is compelling reading. His personal photographs snap our attention to the authenticity of his forceful text.

I don't claim any extraordinary awareness or comprehension of this war. I am not a Vietnam veteran or a historian. Authors present their version of reality for the reader to ponder. I have read this extraordinary book twice and wince at the telling of certain incidences described. Highly recommended.

High School Acquaintance
I went to high school with Jack Corbett 40 years ago so I'm a little biased. Still, I could picture him as he took us with him through the Battle of Khe Sanh. His prose is short and brutal, but brings his experience of battle to the reader's hands and heart. Yet through the terror of battle, he never gives up hope, even when covered in the brain matter of one his compatriots. His book is a testimony to the men of the Marine Corps, who live and die by their motto of "Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful".

Best Vietnam Book I have Read Todate
This book really took me on an emotional journey of an average young man through the hell of Khe Sanh. It makes my own tours to that sad forgotten war feel like a cake walk. Really Mel Gibson should take a look at this book as a screen play for a real power house of a movie about that war; no officers, no extreme river trips, no bad guy good guy of "Platoon", just an average Joe from New York, protecting his balls, his friends and his mortar.

The ending was a killer, heh "Florida", in that one sentence he captured the return we all shared.

Good job John, keep writing.

Soldier's view
Mr.Corbett did a good job putting me there with him during his 77 days of hell. This was not meant to be a story about Khe Sanh but a personal account of a young man's terrifying ordeal at Khe Sanh. Yes,the book is full of 'short choppy sentences' but it is not a history lesson. Mr. Corbett's intimate details are a must read for all Americans who just don't have a clue what Vietnam Vets endured both during and after serving. ... Read more

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An excellent autobiography.
An excellent autobiography by one of the great boxers/fighters of all time. Gives an insight into his own and other fighter's training methods at the time, his approach to his big fights and how he felt during thesefights. A view of how the world was and how the fight game was in his era. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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The Temple Tiger and More Man Eaters of Kumaon
I first read this book just after it was first published some 50 years ago.It was, I recall, a pleasure to read then and doubly so to re-read the account of Corbett's adventures again today. Jim Corbett's somewhat matter-of fact, understated style is a delight to read and his simple yet vivid descriptions of the Indian locale and the people, who play a part in his story are those of a man that loves and deeply understands this land and its people. Corbett is no wanton destroyer of wildlife but a protector of impoverished and often terrified communities who understands and explains with sympathy, why the prey he hunted were forced to become what they were.

Excellent Reading
Any book by Jim Corbett is an interesting read. Although, nowadays, big game hunting is a thing of the past (I reckon), yet it is through the eyes of the author that the reader can seamlessly go back to the times when it was not so.

The stories are beautifully detailed in their descriptions of the expeditions, the customs of the hill folks, their traditions, courage, and (some interesting) superstitions. More often than not while reading the book, I have wondered whether whether I would know what happens in the end because of some absolutely incredible situations and circumstances described.

4 THUMBS UP
HOW THIS MAN COULD MOVE THROUGH THE JUNGLE SO EASILY I DON'T KNOW..HE MUST HAVE HAD BAZOOMAS LIKE BASKETBALLS...LOL

Amazing book
This is an amazing book to read of the adventures of Jim Corbett. The book was a real treat as I belong to the same nick of the woods where Mr, Corbett hunted the maneaters. Words and phrases and the description of the jungle in the book is the replica of what I have experienced in my childhood days spent in Kumaon and had few experiences with leopards dragging few of my own dogs away from the verandah in the dark nights. The only surprise was that a century ago there were so many tigers in that region (high altitude) as now they are very hard to find in the upper himalayas as the big cat has no hunting grounds or shelter due to deforestation. And another reason why there are no tigers in the high altitude areas of Kumaon is as the animal to too big and heavy to big to hunt in the terrain.The only way they can enter from terrai (foot hills) is through the river banks as did another the one that became a threat to the people of Champawat and Jamanpani and for the other villages where people could not even go to Tanakpur to get food and ration, until Bruce Abott (British) shot it down (story narrated by my dad as he was a youngster. My grand dad was a priest in that region when this maneater had terrorized the region was on the way toBariely for the Church Conference when with him and other men volumes of villagers had gone to Tanakpur to get ration as he and other men had guns. This book really describes the nature of the hills, its wild life and the simplicity of the people to the core and is a "must read stuff".

One of a kind!
In a few words Jim Corbett can transport you back 60-100 years & make you feel like you are right there beside him tracking a Tiger in India. There is no bravado, he comes across as very humble. I had read his "Man-Eaters of Kumaon" several years ago & thought it was without a doubt one of the best books I had ever read. Even knowing how good his books were I was still highly impressed with this book as well. It isn't just the tigers he describes but the whole Indian country-side & the people & animals that habitat the place. He takes you there. Don't hesitate to read one of his books.
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