Category: Book Notes
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Man Eaters of Kumaon
Jim Corbett’s Man Eaters of Kumaon is a remarkable sort of book. It’s written in a matter-of-fact style that seems almost impossibly authentic. Corbett was a hunter, later conservationist, specializing in man-eaters, including the Champawat Tiger which killed over 400 people before Corbett brought it down (imagine! four hundred, the terror that must have inspired).…
Dan Yingst 