The book has 10 fascinating stories narrated by one of the greatest hunters, jim corbett, himself, on how he stalked, hunted and shot the deadliest tigers, in the kumaon region of uttarakhand, who had become man eaters. Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. Corbetts greatest claim to fame is keeping the kumaon area of. The book has 10 fascinating stories narrated by one of the greatest hunters, jim corbett, himself, on how he stalked, hunted and shot the deadliest tigers, in the kumaon region of uttarakhand, who had become maneaters. Maneaters of kumaon is a collection of incidents documented by corbett himself during the twenties and thirties in the himalayan foothills. It details the experiences that corbett had in the kumaon region of india from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man eating bengal tigers and indian leopards.
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