Man-Eaters of Kumaon
de CORBETT, Jim
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Auckland, New Zealand
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London: Oxford University Press, 1950 Red cloth titled in gilt on spine, endpaper maps, b&w frontis portrait and photos. Tight and almost square, faded at tip of spine, light foxing in endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, small chips to spine ends and top edge, faded at spine, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021190
- Título
- Man-Eaters of Kumaon
- Autor
- CORBETT, Jim
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Second UK Edition.
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1950
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fishing and Hunting;
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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