Man-Eaters of Kumaon
por Jim Corbett
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Very Good-
- Livreiro
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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Memoir of a big game hunter in the 1940's who helped villagers to hunt man-eating tigers. Set in the foothills of the Himalayas, vivid jungle stories with a foreword by Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, 1936-1943. B/W photos and glossary among 233 pages. Illustrated dust jacket has some edgewear and the text block has minor foxing. Mapped endpapers of the territory Corbett hunted. Identical format of a first edition is reflected in this BOMC edition. The introduction states "the human enemy of Tokio" with that spelling.
Travel & Adventure
Sinopse
Jim Corbett was every inch a hero, something like a sahib Davy Crockett: expert in the ways of the jungle, fearless in the pursuit of man-eating big cats, and above all a crack shot. Brought up on a hill-station in north-west India, he killed his first leopard before he was nine and went on to achieve a legendary reputation as a hunter. Corbett was also an author of great renown. His books on the man-eating tigers he once tracked are not only established classics, but have by themselves created almost a separate literary genre. Man Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, one which offers ten fascinating and spine-tingling tales of pursuing and shooting tigers in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of this century. The stories also offer first-hand information about the exotic flora, fauna, and village life in this obscure and treacherous region of India, making it as interesting a travelogue as it is a compelling look at a bygone era of big-game hunting.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Estoque do vendedor nº
- 091122F
- Título
- Man-Eaters of Kumaon
- Autor
- Jim Corbett
- Formato/Encadernação
- Cloth with title in black on yellow spine
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good-
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Data de publicação
- 1946
- Páginas
- 233
- Dimensão
- octavo
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- travel and adventure, big game, jungle book, India
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Essays and Stories;
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