Man-Eaters of Kumaon

[1] It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers[2] and Indian leopards.

In 1943, whilst Corbett was recovering from typhus fever, his close friend and manager of India's branch of Oxford Press, R.E.

[5] In Chhindwara, India 1949 Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon was read out in court by defense for a murder charge.

The movie bore no relation to the book and centred on an American played by Wendell Corey who wounds a tiger and is later killed by it.

[7] In 1986, the BBC produced a docudrama titled Man-Eaters of India with Frederick Treves in the role of Jim Corbett.

First edition
(publ. Oxford University Press )
Man-Eater of Kumaon , 2005 painting by Merab Abramishvili .