Here's A Great Read For All You Armchair Tiger Hunters

[Fiddler]

I first read this book when I was a teenager, many moons ago. It's a real thriller!
Here it is, online and available for everyone: http://www.archive.org/details/maneater ... o029903mbp
How Jim Corbett survived to old age is simply a miracle!

[Doc Hudson]

The only hunter luckier than james Corbett was Colonel Paterson, of the Maneaters of Tsavo fame.

[vancelw]

I have that book (Maneaters of Kumaon) my shelf but I don't remember reading it. If I did, it was while I was in grade school.

The movie tagline for "Ghosts in the Darkness" was right, only the strangest parts were true. The Lions of Tsavo is an interesting read, too.

I may have to dust off all my old "maneaters" books. They're boxed up right now, but I think I have 3 or 4 of that genre.

[w30wcf]

Fiddler.
Many thanks for the link. Fortunately, I do have the book......must have read it at least a dozen times over the past 30 years. Invigorating! I also have the Temple Tiger and more Maneaters of Kumon as well as the Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprag by Jim. He devoted a whole book to that cunning leopard. Took him several years of hunting off and on to finally bag him.

Thanks again,
w30wcf

[Fiddler]

Fiddler.
Many thanks for the link. Fortunately, I do have the book......must have read it at least a dozen times over the past 30 years. Invigorating! I also have the Temple Tiger and more Maneaters of Kumon as well as the Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprag by Jim. He devoted a whole book to that cunning leopard. Took him several years of hunting off and on to finally bag him.

Thanks again,
w30wcf

You're welcome!
I've also read Corbett's stuff several time and never get tired of it.
That incident where he was carrying the bird's eggs was one of the most frightening things I've ever read. That tigress had him dead to rights. That things worked out in the end was nothing short of a miracle.
JUNGLE LORE was another good Corbett book. The only two I haven't found yet is MY INDIA and TREETOPS.
Oh well, maybe someday!

[hfcable]

the Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprag was one of my favorites but .......scariest of all was the Putmorketchupon Tiger !

[ sorry just had to use that line ; ) ]

[oldbrownhat]

I first read this book when I was a teenager, many moons ago. It's a real thriller!
Here it is, online and available for everyone: http://www.archive.org/details/maneater ... o029903mbp
How Jim Corbett survived to old age is simply a miracle!

I just rediscovered my copy of this and re-read it voraciously. Writing from an earlier era for sure. His stalking skills and intimate knowledge of the forest were amazing. And no whizz-bang modern magnums and fancy bullets, either, just a .275 (7x57) and a black-powder .450 Martini- and a very cool head. I wonder whatever happened to those rifles?

Stuart

[w30wcf]

Great question. I don't know abiut those two but I do know where Jim Corbett's .450/400 double rifle is.
Elmer Keith had procured that rifle and it is in his museum.

Here's an interesting link.
http://www.rugerforum.org/phpBB/viewtop ... 565c37dc72

w30wcf

[oldbrownhat]

Great question. I don't know abiut those two but I do know where Jim Corbett's .450/400 double rifle is.
Elmer Keith had procured that rifle and it is in his museum.

Here's an interesting link.
http://www.rugerforum.org/phpBB/viewtop ... 565c37dc72

w30wcf

Wonderful! The book in the gun case is exactly the same edition as I have.
(After I posted the previous comment I realized it was a) a .450/400 and b) a double rifle, not the Martini he'd been given as a young man. "My bad", as they say.)

Stuart