Jim Corbett
British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author (1875-1955)
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United KingdomHe walked alone into jungles where tigers had learned to eat people, and he came back with the body. Man-Eaters of Kumaon sold worldwide on the strength of those hunts — then he spent his last decades arguing no one should do what made him famous.
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Edward James Corbett grew up in Naini Tal, roaming India's jungles as a boy, and shot his first man-eater in 1907. Over four decades he tracked down animals like the Champawat Tiger and the Leopard of Rudraprayag, each responsible for hundreds of deaths in Kumaon and Garhwal, and killed them when colonial authorities couldn't. His 1944 memoir became an international bestseller and a Hollywood film three years later. He spent most of his working life with the railways, supervising cargo transport across the Ganges for twenty-two years, and commanded labour units in France during the First World…
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