The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. by Jim Corbett.. 1954, first edition, illustrated)

The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett.

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

Very good hardback with jacket. Green cloth boards. Binding firm, Slight compression, rubbing and fading to edges, bookseller's stamp inside front board, pages very good, minor marks, light foxing to first and last few pages, and page edges. Maps to end papers. Price-clipped jacket is rubbed, marked, creased and chipped with some small repaired tears, small hole cut out of rear flap. 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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