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This comprehensive volume contains some of Jim Corbett’s best known books including My India, a memoir of the days he spent among the people of India; Jungle Lore, which talks about the fragility of nature and his despair at humanity’s estrangement from the environment around them; and Tree Tops, wherein he recalls his final days in the Kenyan game reserves. Written in Corbett’s clear, simple style and enlivened by his descriptions of jungle ...
In Tree Tops, the only book Corbett set outside his beloved India, he captures the savage beauty of Kenya's wildlife as well as telling the story of the royal visit of 1952, during which Princess Elizabeth learned she was Queen.
Jim Corbett’s books on man-eating tigers are not only established classics, but also almost in a separate literary category by themselves. Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Colonel Corbett’s books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya during the early years of this century. The stories also contain incidental information on flora, fauna and village life, making this book delightful reading.
This is the last of Jim Corbett’s books on his unique and thrilling hunting experiences in the Indian Himalaya. Concluding the narrative begun in the famous Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Corbett here recounts five stories of skill and endurance. As always, he writes with an acute awareness of all the jungle sights and sounds, his words charged with a great love of the human beings that lay within his hunting terrain. Together with the modesty, calm and precision of his ...
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 ...
The Second Oxford India Illustrated Corbett is another collection of Corbett's best-loved writings complemented by gripping illustrations. Whether lovingly sketching life in a Himalayan village as in 'The Queen of the Village' and 'Kunwar Singh', or describing the dense Indian jungles and teeming wildlife of his days in Jungle Lore, or telling the story, tinged with regret, of the hunting of the beautiful Pipal Pani Tiger, the stories reflect Corbett's ...