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No more beautiful or peaceful scene could be imagined , and yet when the sun , now shining on the back of my head , set on the far side of the snow mountains , terror - terror which it is not possible to imagine until experienced ...
No more beautiful or peaceful scene could be imagined , and yet when the sun , now shining on the back of my head , set on the far side of the snow mountains , terror - terror which it is not possible to imagine until experienced ...
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When I climbed the tree the shadows cast by the snow mountains had reached the Alaknanda . Slowly these shadows crept up the hill and passed me , until only the top of the mountain glowed with red light .
When I climbed the tree the shadows cast by the snow mountains had reached the Alaknanda . Slowly these shadows crept up the hill and passed me , until only the top of the mountain glowed with red light .
Page 144
Lionel Fortescue — up till recently a housemaster at Eton --and I were on a photographing and fishing tour in the Himalayas shortly after 1918 , and we arrived one evening at a Forest Bungalow at the foot of a great mountain , on the ...
Lionel Fortescue — up till recently a housemaster at Eton --and I were on a photographing and fishing tour in the Himalayas shortly after 1918 , and we arrived one evening at a Forest Bungalow at the foot of a great mountain , on the ...
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able Alaknanda animal appeared approached arrived asked bank blood body bridge bungalow called carried climb close crossed dark dead decided direction distance dogs door early eaten fear feet field fire fish five followed foot four Garhwal getting give goat gone grass ground half hand head heard hill hope human hundred yards Ibbotson jungle kill later leaving leopard light lived look lying man-eater miles minutes morning mountain never night object passed path pilgrims poison position possible pug marks ravine reached returned rifle river road rock Rudraprayag seen shelter shoot short shot showed side sight sitting sleep sound started steps taken tell tiger told took track trap tree turned village waiting walk watched wide woman
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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