The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett - 2010

Oxford University Press, 2010. Soft cover. Near Fine. Most of Jim Corbetts books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya. This volume, however, consists of a single story, often considered the most exciting of all Corbett"s jungle tales. He gives a carefully-detailed account of a notorious leopard that spread terror in the hills of the colonial United Provinces. This book gives an absorbing account of his prolonged and hard-won campaign against a single leopard, an animal which outdoes tigers in cunning and ferocity. Roaming over an area of 500 square miles, the Rudraprayag leopard brought terror to the inhabitants of Garhwal for eight years, and year after year all efforts to kill it failed. On and off, Jim Corbett stalked it during the last two years of its career, finally destroying it at the end of an uninterrupted ten week pursuit.