Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944)di Jim Corbett
Asia (24) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Interesting classic book about British man in India who helped kill some man-eating tigers. Tigers do not prey on humans as a rule but will if injured or develop a liking for it. Some parts exciting. Appropriate start to Year of the Tiger!t ( ) First read and enjoyed when I was 12 years old (it was the first American edition, published in 1946, with the wonderful dust jacket shown here). A re-read so much later (in an unadorned tan cover, 1944) and I am less accepting of the style. Corbett was meticulous in describing the scenery and the villagers where the rogue tigers caused problems ~ descriptions invaluable in setting the story in its day. However, the author repeatedly disrupts the flow of the adventures with backstory sometimes of little relevance in the middle of tracking the animals, to the point of confusing the reader. My Indian edition carried a few photographs, which were perhaps acceptable in 1944, but by 2022, the blurry greyscale images are useless in helping illustrate the subject. Despite these criticisms, Corbett was a thoughtful conservationist and explains the reasons for having to hunt down these tigers who've lost their fear of humans largely due to the human population's effects on the tiger's habitat. While this book is largely based on Tiger(man-eater)hunting experience by Jim corbett ,it certainly changes our perspective of what we think about a man-hunting tiger.As violent as they may seem,it is mostly about a gun-shot or some other wound that eventually renders the Tiger weak and consequently,forces it to choose weaker target,that is Human. For me, this is clearly a 'Don't judge a book by it's cover' case, but in the other way around. A was randomly searching for a book one day and stumbled upon this one. I found the cover quite amazing and the synopsis written in the back felt like a cliff hanger of some sort of adventure book. But boy was I wrong when I read it! Turns out that it is one of those books which are filled with referrence-like informations and fails the reader to grasp or visualize the incidents that were happening, or at least that was how I felt. Considering when it was originally written, I cannot blame the conservationist. Reading the Hindi terms in English is also a jaw breaking experience. All I can say is that it could have been better. If this book wasn't the last poly packed piece in the store, then I would have read it a bit and would have thought twice before buying it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
È contenuto inThe Jim Corbett Omnibus: "Man-eaters of Kumaon", "Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag" and "Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon" di Jim Corbett Jim Corbett Omnibus 1 di জিম করবেট (indirettamente) Jim Corbett Omnibus 2 di জিম করবেট (indirettamente) Ha l'adattamentoÈ riassunto in
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... VotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |