Jungle Lore

Jungle Lore is the closest Jim Corbett ever came to an autobiography. In this book, one sees the real soul of a man and his love affair with the people, jungle, and animals of the Kumaon hills. Much of Corbett’s childhood is here – his first forays with catapult and gun, and his first adventures. At the heart of the book lies a plea for sensitivity to the fragility of nature and a lament for mankind’s divorce from his environment. In this concern, many years before the issues of conservation became widely understood, Corbett was well ahead of his time. Today, the message of Jungle Lore is as important as ever, and the morality even more seminal.