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...named after a British big-game hunter who shot several man-eating tigers in the vicinity before turning conservationist. Visitors pour into Corbett for the fauna, which includes tigers, elephants and sloth bears, and also for the picturesque beauty of the mountainous region of Kumaon, where the park is located. There are several accommodation choices available, from traditional jungle lodges to modern villas. www.corbett-national-park.com...
Died. Colonel Jim Corbett, 80, big-game hunter and tracker, author of best-selling books on his jungle campaigns against the big cats of India (Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track...
...turns out music, medical books, Bibles, hymnals, Britain's Dictionary of National Biography, Fowler's Modern English Usage, children's stories, books on Geodesy and Eigen junction Expansions, and such bestsellers as Toynbee's Study of History and Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon...
...Plainfield, N. J., on behalf of a jungle epic called Man Eater of Kumaon, ushers took turns stuffing themselves into a tiger skin to do some pacing and growling in the lobby...
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