A man-eating tiger is a tiger that has been compelled, through stress of circumstances beyond its control, to adopt a diet alien to it.

Coming to the book, I loved the way it has been written. Corbett has quite an intimate knowledge about jungles and calling sounds of various wild animals. It certainly helped me to paint a clearer picture of the forest in my mind.Just Tigers: Corbett talks about the importance of conservation and his love of photographing tigers in the place of shooting them

Corbett was immensely fond of the region around Nainital which in those days was a hill station surrounded by dense and untamed forest. In any case, whether or not one agrees with his values, Corbett is a born story-teller. Despite the fact that he obviously lived to tell the tale, one soon finds oneself so lost in the narrative that one wonders how Corbett can possibly escape the hairy situation he is describing. He has the great gift of being able to convey tension and uncertainty in very few words. Kruuk, H. (2002). Hunter and hunted: Relationship between carnivores and people. Cambridge University Press. Taylor, J. O. (2007). Environmentalism and imperial manhood in Jim Corbett’s Man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag. Mosaic, 40(4), 151–167.This particular edition also benefits from some delightful line drawings that give a perfect sense of place. Shresth, S. (2009). Sahibs and shikar: Colonial hunting and wildlife in British India, 1800-1935. (Doctoral Dissertation). Duke University Libraries. Retrieved February 24, 2017, from https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/1647. In 1943, whilst Corbett was recovering from typhus fever, his close friend and manager of India's branch of Oxford Press, R.E. Hawkins, convinced him to write a book for publishing. Using the 1935 Jungle Stories as a basis, Corbett wrote Man-Eaters of Kumaon (10 stories) which was first published by Oxford University Press in 1944. [4] Notable editions [ edit ]