His exploits were embellished. I have read nearly all his works and I just dont know where to begin with the guy. He claims an exaggerated number of kills to individual tiger. Then he also photographs himself with them. They are in all cases healthy large specimen. The kind hunters would kill for a trophy. How the fuck did man eating tigers have near perfect coat, a large muscular body, and a jaw which shows full set of tooth. And forget the tone of the rest of the writing forget the fact that the indian tribals had been living in the vicinity of the jungle for ages and ooh the poor villagers, tribals, weaklings cant take care of missing person or a man kill or let alone even investigate it themselves, well in that case of course I a white knight was there to protect them. I urge others to look at his writings and photographs and oh yes actual tigers rather than serenading a concocted legacy.

Mr Guru you really don´t know what you are talking about research a bit before you open your dirty mouth. It is a shame to hear somebody refering to Corbett in such a disrespectfull way. Corbett was a great storyteller, a sportsman with a great heart, always ready to help the Kumaon folks. He is a legend in the Kumaon hills and reading his book “Maneaters of Kumaon” when I was a young was in fact a delicious nectar to my soul. I am a Corbett lover and I have visited his grave in Nyeri, Kenya. It is my dream to visit Corbett homeland in India.Corbett forever!!!

The terrain though which Corbett operated is a vast area of mountain forest, still very rugged and without expansive acces.

I have walked in the jungle and along riverbeds in an area not more than 1 mile from his home, where the pugmarks of Tiger are still to be found close to habitation and recent encounters recounted.

While walking alone through grasses 18″ high, or across river valleys still frequented by Tigers, the sense of being severely second best is very real.

To endure the rigourous privations that the climate, geography and quarry demanded is a testiment to a real man.

Firstly-You do realise that for tigers to kill people, first there have to be tigers.

Secindly-The tiger population in the 1920s was estimated to be about 40,000. Today it hovers around 4000 (if we are optimistic). The Human population in the 1920s in the kumaon region was 45,000 and today is around 35.64 lacs (census taken in 2001). You do the math.

Though one must read Corbetts stories with a pinch of salt, on the whole i think they are brilliant, written and narrated extremely well and in the end he always has promoted the need for survival of the tiger, which is what makes him a great man. reducing this man to what you call “a vain dickhead” is a shameless act of ignorance.

The reason that the number of man-eating incidents was so high in the first part of the 20th century was that humans were encroaching onto the tigers’ territory. Today, there is no jungle in India apart from the few parks. What few tigers remain live in these parks and have little contact with humans.

The book was required reading when i was growing up in india. I re read it when i traveled kumaon garwhal in 2002 Adding the numbers of people corbett claims that the beasts had killed its 1200+. Even today when there’s a lot more human encroachment in number of incidents where tigers kill human are less than 12/yr.