Set of 6 books by Jim Corbett

a) Jim Corbett, Man Eaters of Kumaon, London: Oxford University Press, 1946, 1st American Edition

xix, 233 pages, illustrations; hardbound with pictorial dust wrappers
8.4 x 5.6 in (21 x 14 cm)

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

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

c) Jim Corbett, Jungle Lore, London: Oxford University Press, 1953

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

Jim Corbett's fame rests on his tales of hunting in the Indian jungle, but he was acutely sensitive to the fragility of nature and well ahead of his time in understanding the need for conservation. Jungle Lore is the closest Jim Corbett ever came to an autobiography, revealing his life-long passion for the people, jungle, and animals of the Kumaon hills in the Himalayan foothills, and his despair at humanity's estrangement from its environment.

d) Jim Corbett, The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon, London: Oxford University Press, 1954, second impression

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, 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.

e) Jim Corbett, My India, London: Oxford University Press, 1952 (reprinted)

190 pages, hardbound with dust wrappers
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.

f) Jim Corbett, Tree Tops, London: Oxford University Press, 1955

xiii + 30 pages superbly illustrated with several sketches by Raymond Sheppard, a memoir of the visit of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip to Tree Tops at Nyeri, Kenya in 1952,, hardbound with dust wrappers
8 x 5.25 x 0.25 in (20.2 x 13.5 x 0.5 cm)

(Set of six)

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