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Page 141
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 — would grip ...
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 — would grip ...
Page 143
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 . As this glow faded , long streamers
...
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 . As this glow faded , long streamers
...
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
far side of ...
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
far side of ...
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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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