London: Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University. Fine with no dust jacket. 1950. Second Impression. Hard Cover. With 4 photographic illustrations & endpaper maps, a very good copy with a good dustjacket, jacket has been price clipped and has some short closed tears and a small piece missing from rear panel without loss to text. ; 200 x 135mm; xviii, 212 pages .

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Jim Corbett was every inch a hero, something like a sahib Davy Crockett: expert in the ways of the jungle, fearless in the pursuit of man-eating big cats, and above all a crack shot. Brought up on a hill-station in north-west India, he killed his first leopard before he was nine and went on to achieve a legendary reputation as a hunter. Corbett was also an author of great renown. His books on the man-eating tigers he once tracked are not only established classics, but have by themselves created almost a separate literary genre. Man Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, one which offers ten fascinating and spine-tingling tales of pursuing and shooting tigers in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of this century. The stories also offer first-hand information about the exotic flora, fauna, and village life in this obscure and treacherous region of India, making it as interesting a travelogue as it is a compelling look at a bygone era of big-game hunting.

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Bookseller: M & A Simper Bookbinders (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 15927
Title: MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON
Author: Corbett, Jim
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Fine with no dust jacket
Edition: Second Impression
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1950
Bookseller catalogs: Hunting - Shooting;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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