This book contains ten first-hand accounts of Jim Corbett's jungle encounters. Describing his thrilling campaigns against Champawat
man-eater whose attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger, and the Chowgarh tiger- who had preyed on sixty-four people, these stories among others have never ceased to enthrall the readers.

Corbett was also an author of great renown. His books on the man-eating tigers he once tracked are not only established classics, but have by themselves created almost a separate literary genre. Man Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, one which offers ten fascinating and spine-tingling tales of pursuing and shooting tigers in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of this century. The stories also offer first-hand information about the exotic flora, fauna, and village life in this obscure and treacherous region of India, making it as interesting a travelogue as it is a compelling look at a bygone era of big-game hunting.