I first read this book many many years ago and it stayed in my mind. Recently one or two things raised it in my memory and I decided it would be good to read it again while waiting for another book to arrive. Given that this was written in the middle of the last century about events in the first half of that century it is remarkably readable and timeless. Chundawat, R.S.; Khan, J.A.; Mallon, D.P.\n (2011). " Panthera tigris ssp. tigris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T136899A4348945. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T136899A4348945.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

He also had a greater knowledge, understanding, and love of India and its people than most of those today who would write him off a ‘colonialist.’ He was nothing of the sort: born and raised in India, he never saw it as anything but India. To this day there is a national park there named after him. Game hunting on the trail of the maneater is right outside a documentary and Corbett relives his hunts through the chapters. The fact that he is an excellent shot makes the hunting process easier. The best part was probably his attitude toward the animals he killed. His respect for them is clear, and several times in the text he even expresses his regret that he had to carry out the deed. Ultimately, though, his desire to protect the humans being preyed upon outweighs this, and he puts each animal down. Still, he is compassionate, and tries his best to make the kill as painless for the animal as possible.The best wilderness book I've read so far!! In ' Man Eaters of Kumaon' , Jim Corbett, an exceptionally talented hunter, writer , and in his later years a conservationist, gives us the blood-chilling, frightening , and highly exciting experiences and encounters with the furious wild, while he was hunting the 'Man-Eating' tigers of the Indian forests. Coming to the book, I loved the way it has been written. Corbett has quite an intimate knowledge about jungles and calling sounds of various wild animals. It certainly helped me to paint a clearer picture of the forest in my mind. Mandala, V. R. (2014). Go after a man-eater that has killed a hundred people? Not on your life! Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences, 7, 572–609. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2014.070212

The one thing anyone will notice about the film is that apart from Sabu and one or two others, the rest of the Indian cast is made up of white and Hispanic actors in body paint. This is kind of offensive--perhaps they had trouble finding Indians (from India) in the States at that time, though I assume if they'd tried harder they could have. As the result of this and a script that seemed filled with the inevitable, it's only a minor time-passer. Not bad--just not particularly good.

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I don't have too much to say about this one, because the title is extremely appropriate. It's very much just more of Man-Eaters of Kumaon. If you enjoyed Corbett's earlier book, as I did, and just want more of that, it absolutely delivers. I think on the whole, having now read both of these and The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, that I prefer the later and its more in depth account of a single hunt, but there's not much in it, and I enjoyed this collection of shorter tales as much as I did Corbett's first book. Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q. & Yadav, S. P. (2020b). Status of leopards in India, 2018 (technical report TR/2020/16). National Tiger Conservation Authority, Government of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. https://ntca.gov.in/assets/uploads/Reports/AITM/Status_Leopard_India_2018web.pdf By May 1946 over half a million copies of Man-Eaters of Kumaon were in print. The book had been translated into four Western languages (including Spanish, Czech and Finnish) as well as six Indian languages. By 1980 the book went on to sell over four million copies worldwide. [5] Chhindwara court case [ edit ] Philo, C. & Wilbert, C. (2005). Animal spaces, beastly places: an introduction. In C. Philo & C. Wilbert (Eds.), Animal spaces, beastly places: New geographies of human—animal relations (pp. 1–36). Taylor and Francis e-library. https://www.b-ok.org/book/886972/59104e.