The Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett

The Man-Eaters of Kumaon is that the one in all the simplest searching story by Edward James Gentleman Jim (1875-1955), He was a notable soldier within the British Indian Army, and a superb hunter. Corbett's greatest aim was keeping the Kumaon space of Asian country safe from man-eating tigers. Gentleman Jimstats in his book that tigers don't naturally eat human flesh. Instead, they solely begin to eat humans through some accident,

sometimes through a wound from a hunter, or associate inability to catch their own game, appreciate broken teeth from maturity. it's Corbett's job to hunt the tigers down, that is usuallya awfully troublesome task. It involves not solely risking his life, however of golf shot himself through backbreaking conditions, appreciate creating platforms in trees referred to as machans and keeping watch alone along with his scattergun for generally twelve and even eighteen hours.

Corbett hunts man-eaters from 1907 to 1938; he documents killing nineteen tigers and fourteen leopards, all of whom square measure man-eaters. all at once, these animals kill twelve hundred folks, together withgirls and kids. Since tigers can typically hunt those that stalk them, Gentleman Jim hunts alone or along with his honest watchdog Robin. partially as a result of he hunts alone, no characters however Robin have a outstanding role within the book. Gentleman Jim seldom mentions family and solely sometimesmentions friends; most of his interactions square measure with native Kumaons.
The square measureas Gentleman Jim hunts in are nowadays settled within the Indian state of Uttarakhand; the city of Nainital is that the capital of the state. Kumaon is that the jap of 2 body zones in Uttarakhand and Garhwal is that the alternative. it's composed of variety of smaller districts, together with Cahmpawat. All of Corbett's hunts occur in either Kumaon or Garhwal. within the book, Gentleman Jim includes the stories of killing man-eaters in Champawat, Chowgarh, Powalgarh, Mohan, Kanda, bo treeand Thak.