The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett.

The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett.

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1954. First Illustrated Edition, 1st impression.

Good hardback with jacket. Slight wear and fading to edges, binding firm, pages very good, minor marks, light foxing to edges, one page has a diagonal crease. Faint bookseller's stamp to ffep. Maps to end papers. Small price whited-out on ffep. Jacket is rubbed, marked, creased and chipped with tape to edges, small loss to spine ends, white out over price. 191 pages, illustrated.

This book gives an absorbing account of Corbett's prolonged and hard-won campaign against a single leopard, an animal which outdoes tigers in cunning and ferocity. Roaming over an area of 500 square miles, the Rudraprayag leopard brought terror to the inhabitants of Garhwal for eight years, and year after year all efforts to kill it failed. On and off, Jim Corbett stalked it during the last two years of its career, finally destroying it at the end of an uninterrupted ten week pursuit."

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