Chuka Man-Eater by Jim Corbett | Adventure Audiobook | Audiostory (English) 

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@@selvalore Welcome

With a plethora of audiobooks and regular books available I find myself listening to your channel on a regular basis. It never gets old. Thanks for your efforts.

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Thank you and I agree with you Ben. Great to see your name in the comments again!

@@selvalore Thank you Sir, please keep them coming. Yours is the first subscription I look for! I recently wrote a column (I write for my local paper in the UK about wildlife and nature) concerning my long ago connection with the Central Provinces... My Granny had a tiger in her house. To be more correct, she had a tiger in her summer-house. This may sound like a spurious statement and I’m sure you don’t believe me dear Reader, but I assure you it was the truth. Let me be Frank about it. The tiger (or tigress, I could never really tell) was not in a particularly good way. It lay flat on the floor with its paws out, its mouth open in an unyielding snarl and with a grand piano on top of it. Nonetheless, as a small child, I was always somewhat weary of it and although I would study it from a distance and occasionally stroke its rather moth-eaten head, I would usually skip quickly past it. But how did a Bengal Tiger…or tigress…end up in my grandmother, Muriel Pike’s Dorset summer house in the first place? I hope you’ll agree with me that the story is quite an intriguing one. As I said, I’ll be Frank about it. My Uncle Frank (actually great-great Uncle Frank) joined the Imperial Civil Service of India sometime in the latter part of the 19th century. The Imperial Civil Service was the élite higher civil service of the British Empire in South east Asia and the British Raj in India and ran from 1858-1947. Uncle Frank (properly; Sir Frank Sly) rose to become the first Governor of Central Provinces and was based in that fantastically exotic and nostalgic-sounding city of Nagpur (more or less in the middle of India). Throughout his career, Uncle Frank worked on the local infrastructure, including the famous railways and would constantly welcome and befriend visiting British dignitaries. One such visitor was the then Prince of Wales (later to become - briefly - Edward VIII) who made an official visit to India, staying in Frank’s Governor's Palace for a few days. This was in 1922. He became quite friendly with Uncle Frank's daughter, Joan, and they corresponded after the visit. Part of the ‘entertainment’ set up by Sir Frank for his visitors were tiger shoots…and hey presto, one tiger skin, kept in the family and ensconced in my late grandmother’s house back in Dorset. However the story doesn’t quite end there. Joan later became engaged to Lord Louis Mountbatten's aide-de-camp but then married Uncle Frank's aide-de camp, Captain Geddes. Tragically there was a huge scandal culminating in Joan and her lover's suicide in a flat in Jermyn Street, Piccadilly which hit the national headlines in August 1924. Uncle Frank retired in 1925 and died in 1928. Now all that remains of his memory are his grave in Kensal Green Cemetery in West London, a stack of photos, a Buddha and a commemorative casket and silver trowel he was given when he officially opened a railway in Central Provinces. Oh and that old tiger skin. And yet… A member of my family recently visited Nagpur and sought out Government House. On the wall hangs a portrait. It’s Uncle Frank, revered and held in high esteem as a ‘good governor’, provided that is, you weren’t a Bengal Tiger.

@@benwaddams Ben, you are a terrific writer. Having family connections that go all the way to the creme de la creme of British society and with connections to India, no doubt gives you an exalted status as a storyteller. I believe all of it. If you can, please send me a link to your column. Thank you for sharing this story with us all, Ben!

@@selvalore Too kind Sir, thank you. Unfortunately the columns are not online, but if I write any more that might intertest you (usually they are just on British Wildlife), I will be sure to send you the text. Looking forward to your next narration. Just listened again to Rudrapreyag and trying to work out the spot where the leopard was shot on Google maps....tricky! Great work Mr Singh!

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I can't agree more! Thanks for the comment.

He was a better hunter than a storyteller. I believe most of the stories were wtitten by his sister , Maggie.

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That's a fair point and I quite agree with you on that. Thank you for commenting again, Mr. Boswell!

As much as Jim Colbert loved India I wonder why he didn't retire there

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Thank you for the comment. There's a few more left that I will get to at some point.

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That's very well said and said with much humility. Thank you for an excellent comment!

That's very kind. Thank you for commenting, again. It's been a while.

@@selvalore to not have commented favorably would have been unforgivable...🙂

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Indeed, he always got the job done, no matter what. Thanks again for all your comments, Jim!

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I have though the same thing

Thank you for saying that, Sunil! For sure, there's a lot more to come. Yes, there are several stories penned by Mr. Anderson specifically about the supernatural. My favorite one is called 'The queer side of things'.

@@selvalore Thanks this is new info for me, will search that. Corbett's Night at Champawat Dak Bungalow, episode is very mysterious, he never told anyone about it in detail. Tehsilar left him in hurry and he woke next morning in the Wild.

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Thank you Shwetank!

Thank you for the comment! Those are some excellent recommendations. I'm very familiar with those two titles from Peter Capstick. They are more recent books and are protected so cannot be legally read. The last two titles you mention are from JE CArrington Turner and Kenneth Anderson. There is already an audio video each from those two books on the channel and more will be put out in due course.

I have read all of Peter capsticks books they are excellent

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Absolutely, that is such an amazing feat of strength. Thanks for pointing that out!

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Well, that's a lot to live up to. Thanks for your comment!

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Thank you for your comment, Justin! And I do hope to continue with more of these stories.

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Thanks as always, Ed! Glad you liked this one.

I don't think that ever happened. They lived a long distance away, were a generation apart in age, and moved in different circles.

Haha, thats awesome! Thank you for letting me know and a very happy new year to you too. Editing the next one as I type this. Should be up in a few days.

Thank you!

That's a question I have wondered about too. There's a Jim Corbett group on FB and I'm sure folks on there would know more.

@@selvalore I am not FB but if you find out do let me know. I'll try to search for it until then.

Kenneth Anderson should have had this privilege too

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A man's man, for sure!

Thank you for the suggestion, Dipjyoti. I'm familiar with Chandamama. Grew up reading it along with Tinkle. I'll look into it. Cheers!

Much appreciated John!

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Will be hard for ypu but seriously 2 audibooks per month will be refreshing.

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Thank you as always for your wishes and for the comment!

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I'm not but i'll look into that. Thank you for the recommendation.

Yeah that's a fair point. Thank you again for commenting, Mr. Trivedi!

Neeraj ji, there are other channels who have covered this story in Hindi. Hindi is my mother tongue too but these stories are originally written in English and so they must be read in English. I know there are translations available in Hindi of this book, but they are of poor quality. I hope this helps!

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