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First Hard cover edition from Longmans India. Here is a fascinating biography of an iconic hero - Col. Jim Corbett, the slayer of man eating tigers and leopards that roamed the Himalayan foot hills nearly a century ago between 1907 and 1938. His Man eaters of Kumaon ( first published in 1944 in Bombay) has been read by millions around the world. He wrote 5 more books before his death in 1955. But Jim Corbett was more than a hunter; he was a dead shot, first class naturalist, a brilliant author, humanitarian, businessman and photographer. He masterminded in opening of India s first National Park - The Hailey Park- in 1935, now renamed ss the Corbett National Park, a solid home for Indian tigers. This book is the result of an extensive research that spanned three decades, travelling to India, Kenya, England, US, Canada and Sweden to meet and interview Corbett s friends, relatives and publishers, and collected hitherto unpublished material and photographs including a manuscript titled The Chirgudi Man eater, written by his friend Col. Ramsay before the First World War. Many of these original findings were used by several other authors including Martin Booth in 1986. This title was originally published in Canada in 1997 by the Jim Corbett Foundation, established by the author in 1997 immediately after Corbett s neglected gravesite was restored, as a limited edition of 1000 copies. This much revised and updated edition was published as a hardcover in 2001 in India and the UK by Orient Longmans and Sangam books, estimated to be no less than 20,000 copies, of which just 100 copies were signed by the author, and of that only handful copies are left in stock. Extremely scarce, hailed by the critics around the world, as the best Corbett biography ever written , this biography has been copied by various other biographers, as this is the real biography with Facts. New, XVIII + 225+ 16 pages of photo plates, First hardcover edition, Fine in Fine Dust jacket and Signed by the author on the title page: A collector s item. (see images). Seller Inventory # 04122022-1
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