| has gloss | eng: Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. It details the experiences Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India in the 1920s and 1930s, while hunting man-eating tigers and leopards. One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths. Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbetts books and contains 10 stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of the twentieth century. The text also contains incidental information on flora, fauna and village life. The book was later turned into a film, Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948). In 1986, the BBC produced a docudrama titled Man-Eaters of India with Fred Treves in the role of Jim Corbett. An IMAX movie, India: Kingdom of the Tiger, based on Corbetts books, was made in 2002. A TV movie (based on Corbett's book, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag) starring Jason Flemyng was made in 2005. |