Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
What makes Jim Corbett's "Man-Eaters of Kuamon" so wonderful is his eye for detail. Corbett traveled on foot across India hunting man-eating tigers from in the 1920's and 1930's. His book, not only reports his adventures stalking tigers, but gives a great sense of the jungle and a small taste of the people living in the region. His tales are so descriptive, you can really imagine yourself next to him hearing a tiger's roar disconcertingly close by as you're crouched in the bush or up a tree. Very entertaining reading.
adventurous
informative
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
This is a collection of hunting stories from legendary man-eater hunter Jim Corbett. Corbett does a good job describing each hunt and the area he is in. He also takes the time to tell how he thinks each tiger had to resort to man-eating. I don’t know if it was the narrator or the writing but at times when not on the hunt the book felt slow and kinda boring.
adventurous
medium-paced
This is another really good and enjoyable collection of tales published in the mid 1950s and involving the hunting of large, now very rare, species who were only doing what nature created them to do. As ever this enjoyment come's from Corbett's writing style and attitude, which were both clear and concise, given the facts as they were and taking no joy from the suffering of others, animal or human. Corbett's love of the natural world is evident in these tales given the details he sees and thinks to give to the reader and the almost sorrowful way he takes on each task as one of the top hunters in India at the time.
tense
Really enjoyed this book as a time capsule. Corbett is stuck in a weird halfway house between hunting as a form of protection and outright conservation. No conclusions, just tales from the jungle.
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Read this while still at school and loved it. It was a fascinating dip into a world that has maybe long since vanished and that i still remember it with such fondness say much for its effect.
adventurous
challenging
funny
informative
medium-paced
in these wonderfully detailed descriptions of his famous hunting expeditions, jim corbett brings to life lush indian jungles, gurgling streams, and prowling, magnificent beasts that call them home. containing his real-life adventures where he hunts man-eating tigers that cause mass bloodshed in the kumaon region, this memoir explores the lives of these beasts and discernes what forces these disciplined creatures to acquire an unnatural taste for human blood, throughout which corbett makes one thing clear: that tigers are distinguished gentlemen of undying courage and fortitude, a beautiful species thoroughly deserving of our respect and awe.