Hero of Kumaon Grand National

Hero of Kumaon Grand NationalJim Corbett became the hero of thousands of impoverished local families in the remote Indian region of Kumaon when, throughout the 1920s and 30s, he answered their pleas to rid them of the man eating tigers and leopards which were ravaging their populations. Man eaters roamed a region of hundreds of square miles over several years, killing the defenceless villagers at will: for example the Champawat man eater had killed over 434 people in six years,

He's up against sun cancer

Middle-aged professional photographer Helen Shaw and her husband Bob set off with those questions in mind and were blown away by the experience

Compara Dun

tells the story of the year in which the colony is established

This book explores in practical detail many of the ways

the patience and ultimately the reward of an extraordinary image

The action of the poem centres on Charles Cothill

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woods and marshes with fellow guns and dogs

For beginner and expert

a desperate bid to keep up appearances and the tenderest of love scenes

seen them through hardships