The book was written by Jim Corbett who was a legendary figure in hunting and conservation of fauna and in particular tigers in India. The book is based on his experiences of shooting down man eating tigers in the Kumaon region in Uttarakhand. The book is well written and gives the readers an idea of flora and fauna in the jungles and how the sportsmen (hunters) read the signs of nature, like the calls of langurs and other animals to approach their hunt. Few points interested me a lot, particularly the one in which Jim Corbett refers to approaching the hunt with wind on the back and the reasoning behind it.
There are two dimensions to every story that Jim Corbett referred to in the book. The first and more detailed one covers the hunt itself and the second is the possible reason why that tiger has turned to humans as prey. As mentioned in the preface of the book that not all tigers are man-eaters and they do not resort to eating humans unless circumstances in the form of an injury, old age and reduced agility make them unfit and difficult to hunt their natural preys.
This was my second read on Adventure. Though the book is well written and a wild life enthusiast may probably take good time to read the book by imagining the terrain and time of the day mentioned and how the author hunted down the tigers in that, But I found some of the things repetitive in stories in latter part of the book and at times got little disinterested in the details. It will still give a high level idea of the jungles even when one does not take too much of time to imagine and visualize the picture in its entirety. The book is a good read for readers who want to know about the jungles and its inhabitants.
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