Jungle Lore

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JUNGLE LORE
Jim Corbett
Jungle Lore is the closest Jim Corbett ever came to an autobiography. In this book, one sees the real soul of a man and his love affair with the people, jungle, and animals of the Kumaon hills. Much of Corbett's childhood is here — his first forays with catapult and gun, and his first adventures. At the heart of the book lies a plea for sensitivity to the fragility of nature and a lament for mankind's divorce from his environment. In this concem, many years before the issues of conservation became widely understood, Corbett was well ahead of his time. Today, the message oi Jungle Lore is as important as ever, and the morality even more seminal.
'Here is perhaps the quintessential Corbett, allowing us a glimpse of that intimate relationship he had with nature, and with the jungles of the Kumaon foothills The book is a delight, with its descriptions of birds,
reptiles and animals.' — The Indian Express
' .Colonel Jim Corbett... Tovább

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OXPORD
INDIA PAPERBACKS
JUNGLE LORE
Jim Corbett
Jungle Lore is the closest Jim Corbett ever came to an autobiography. In this book, one sees the real soul of a man and his love affair with the people, jungle, and animals of the Kumaon hills. Much of Corbett's childhood is here — his first forays with catapult and gun, and his first adventures. At the heart of the book lies a plea for sensitivity to the fragility of nature and a lament for mankind's divorce from his environment. In this concem, many years before the issues of conservation became widely understood, Corbett was well ahead of his time. Today, the message oi Jungle Lore is as important as ever, and the morality even more seminal.
'Here is perhaps the quintessential Corbett, allowing us a glimpse of that intimate relationship he had with nature, and with the jungles of the Kumaon foothills The book is a delight, with its descriptions of birds,
reptiles and animals.' — The Indian Express
' .Colonel Jim Corbett was a rarity — a man of immense courage and knowledge of the wildlife he hunted, and later attempted to conserve; who was blessed with the talent to be able to recount his adventures
exceedingly well.' — The Hindu
' .The India of forests and mountains inhabited by tribals and teeming fauna .is the India that Jim Corbett loved, the India that he explored, the India that he experienced. In the foothills of the Himalayas .in Nainital [is] where Corbett spent the best part of his life His early forays into the jungle with .weapons, are related in Jungle Lore.'
— The Independent
' .Corbett left a large place in his heart not only for the denizens of the jungles but for the poor too whom he called the soul of India.'
— The Sunday Statesman
Cover photograph: Jim Corbett with 'The Bachelor of Powalgarh'; from the OUP archives.
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