This original volume combines two of Corbetts most exciting stories from The Man-eaters of Kumaon with his full-length narrative, The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. These are among the most gripping accounts ever written about the tracking of dangerous, renegade animals. The terror than man-eating tigers and leopards brought to Indian villages was not exaggerated: one tigress Corbett was commissioned to track down had killed 400 people. Yet Corbett, who had few equals in jungle lore, seldom killed an animal except from necessity. A conservationist ahead of his time, Indias first national park was named in his honor.
First published in 1952 and 1954
New introduction by Geoffrey C. Ward
Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard
New maps
