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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.

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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".

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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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This digital document is an article from Newsmakers 2004 Cumulation, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1509 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Newsmakers provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1904Original Publisher: Gay and BirdSubjects: English poetryNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: POETS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURYENGLISH POETSJOHN SKELTONCirca 1460-1529John Skelton was born in the county of Norfolk about the year 1460. ' Up to 1500,' says Mr. Chambers, ' Skelton was a highly respectable person, a royal tutor, bepraised by foreign scholars ; after 1500 he became a country parson, always in trouble with his bishop, a satirist, and at last an outlaw, obliged to take sanctuary, though with some rich friends who still favoured him. His poetical progression was from laboured seven-line stanzas to the " ragged, tattered, and jagged " metre, in which his abundant flow of words, his real feeling for rhythm and music, his humour and very considerable learning, his love of beauty, and his half-merry, half-savage raillery could all find free vent.'Skelton studied at Cambridge, if not at both Universities, and began to publish poems between 1480 and 1490. He graduated as poet laureate at Oxford before 1490. This was a degree in grammar, including versification and rhetoric (see Appendix). In 1498 he took Holy Orders, and eventually became Rector of Diss, in Norfolk.As a scholar Skelton had a European reputation. The great Erasmus has called him Britannicarum liter arum decus et lumen, or ' the light and ornament of English letters.' His Latin verses are ' distinguished for their purity and classical spirit. As lor his English poetry, it is generally more of a mingled yarn, and of a much coarser fabric.' Amongst his writings are TheBoke of Phylip Sparowe, which was written for Jane Scrope, a pupil of the Black Nuns at Carrow, ... ... Read more

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