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Page 39
From the maps I had been supplied with I found that the man-eater was operating
over an area of roughly five hundred square miles. Five hundred square miles of
country anywhere would have been a considerable area in which to find and ...
From the maps I had been supplied with I found that the man-eater was operating
over an area of roughly five hundred square miles. Five hundred square miles of
country anywhere would have been a considerable area in which to find and ...
Page 43
... followed me could only have been the man-eater, and for the rest of the day I
walked as many miles as my legs would ... and almost at the exact spot from
where you obtained your bird's-eye view of the five hundred square miles of
country ...
... followed me could only have been the man-eater, and for the rest of the day I
walked as many miles as my legs would ... and almost at the exact spot from
where you obtained your bird's-eye view of the five hundred square miles of
country ...
Page 171
And what but bad luck had made a leopard who possibly had thirty square miles
in which to wander, arrive at a particular spot in those thirty miles just as the man-
eater, not finding his kill where he had left it, was quite conceivably on his way to
...
And what but bad luck had made a leopard who possibly had thirty square miles
in which to wander, arrive at a particular spot in those thirty miles just as the man-
eater, not finding his kill where he had left it, was quite conceivably on his way to
...
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User Review - CeiliOkeefe - LibraryThingA classic tale from the northern edge of India set in 1925 and told with poetic simplicity by a very brave, humane and observant man. I first read this book as a teenager and have reread it many times ... Read full review
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User Review - Stbalbach - LibraryThingJim Corbett's second book, following his classic Man Eaters of Kummaon. In the first book, each chapter is a self-contained unit, concerning 1 tiger and Corbett's story how he hunted and killed it ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Authors | Jim Corbett, Raymond Sheppard |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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