Surely one of the most interesting and modest writers of the 20th century. This book captures a bygone age of India in the time of the Raj. Jim Corbett was a man who loved the people and animals of India, this book is a doorway into those parts of his working life that are not probably as well known as his exploits as the hunter who was called on through out his life to relieve the inhabitants from the terror of Tigers and Leopards the had turned man eaters.