Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett

by Duff Hart-Davis

Jim Corbett became the hero of thousands of impoverished local families in the remote Indian region of Kumaon when, throughout the 1920s and 30s, he answered their pleas to rid them of the man-eating tigers and leopards which were ravaging their populations. Man-eaters roamed a region of hundreds of square miles over several years, killing the defenceless villagers at will: for example the Champawat man-eater had killed over 434 people in six years,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913159264
• ISBN13: 9781913159269
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"