The Temple Tiger: And More Man Eaters in Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)

by Jim Corbett

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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,...Read more
  • ISBN10 812914185X
  • ISBN13 9788129141859
  • Publish Date 1 May 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country IN
  • Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 184
  • Language English