A Collection of 5 Books by Jim Corbett

• Jim Corbett, Man Eaters of Kumaon, London: Oxford University Press, 1953, 2nd Edition

168 pages, illustrations; hardbound with pictorial dust wrappers
8.4 x 5.6 in (21 x 14 cm)

• Jim Corbett, Man Eaters of Kumaon, New York: Oxford University Press, 1946

235 pages, illustrations; Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth with minor chip on the spine, endpaper maps
8.4 x 5.6 in (21 x 14 cm)

• Jim Corbett, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, London: Oxford b Press, 1949, 2nd edition

166 pages, 7 illustrations; hardbound with pictorial dust wrappers, endpaper maps
8.4 x 5.6 in (21 x 14 cm)

• Jim Corbett, My India, London: Oxford University Press, 1954

190 pages, hardbound with dust wrappers, endpaper maps
8.4 x 5.6 in (21 x 14 cm)

A memoir of life among the poor in India, by famed conservationist and hunter of man-eaters, Jim Corbett.

• Jim Corbett, The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon, London: Oxford University Press, 1954, 1st edition

197 pages, 10 illustrations; hardbound with dust wrappers
8.4 x 5.6 in (21 x 14 cm)

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, even supersede, 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.

(Set of five)

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