"I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater." Man-eaters of Kumon contains ten first-hand accounts of Jim Corbett's jungle encounters. Describing his thrilling campaigns against the Champawat man-eater?whose attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger, and the Chowgarh tiger?who had preyed on sixty-four people, these stories among others have never ceased to enthrall the readers. Corbett's most famous work, this book is a timeless classic. Optimized for digital reading, this ebook offers a smooth, immersive experience on any device.
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Jim Corbett, a British hunter-naturalist and colonel in the British Indian Army, was known for tracking down and hunting man-eating tigers and leopards in the Garhwal and Kumaon regions of the Indian Himalayas in the early twentieth century.