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Procuring two stout eight - foot - long bamboos from the village , I drove them into the ground close to the perpendicular bank that divided the field in which the body was lying from the field below , and tied my spare rifle and ...
Procuring two stout eight - foot - long bamboos from the village , I drove them into the ground close to the perpendicular bank that divided the field in which the body was lying from the field below , and tied my spare rifle and ...
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There were still some forty - five minutes of daylight left , and during that time we intently scanned -I with a pair of eyes that few are blessed with , and Ibbotson with his field glasses — every foot of the considerable expanse of ...
There were still some forty - five minutes of daylight left , and during that time we intently scanned -I with a pair of eyes that few are blessed with , and Ibbotson with his field glasses — every foot of the considerable expanse of ...
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Ibbotson accompanied me on that eleventh , and last , evening , and as we approached Golabrai we saw a number of men standing on the side of the road and looking down into a field a little beyond the mango tree .
Ibbotson accompanied me on that eleventh , and last , evening , and as we approached Golabrai we saw a number of men standing on the side of the road and looking down into a field a little beyond the mango tree .
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User Review - nadineeg - LibraryThingOnce again Jim Corbett takes us on a thrilling adventure as he tracks and eventually kills an Indian Leopard which, up to its own death caused 125 recorded deaths, and possibly more. The book is ... Read full review
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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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able Alaknanda animal approached arrived asked bank blood body bridge bungalow bushes carried climb close crossed dark dead decided direction distance dogs door early eaten feet field fire fish five followed foot four further Garhwal give goat gone grass ground half hand head heard hearing hill hope human hundred yards Ibbotson jungle kill later leaving leopard light lived look lying man-eater miles minutes morning never night passed path pilgrim 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 thorn tiger told took track trap tree turned village waiting walk watched wide wind woman
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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