Kanda Man-Eater by Jim Corbett (with introductory commentary) | Audiobook (English) 

I enjoyed your “jabbering”! Please feel free to include it in your future videos! ✌🏼💖

Loved it! Thanks for keeping these culturally and historically significant books alive. RU-vid will surely attract a younger and younger and more tech savvy crowd.

Feel free to pontificate anytime you want, it definitely added to the story.

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Thank you for all your work

Wonderful words. I couldn't have said it any better.

Best comment award is yours for this one. Appreciate the encouraging words. Thanks for listening, Mr. Panchawagh!

Wonderfully said!!

Indeed, I have read a few other authors from this era and none of them were as captivating as Corbett. Excellently read as well!

I'm familiar with all those names. All good options to read for any lover of the wildnerness. Great recommendations for future readings.

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You might want to look for the Corbett books. They come in a pack of 5. Jungle Lore, My India, Maneaters of kumaon, the maneatung leopard of rudraprayag, and one more I've forgotten. Great reads if you like that stuff.

That's a little too kind. Thank you Mr. Husayn. Always good to see your comment.

You're very welcome and thanks for listening Mr. Parog!

Nice to hear from you Mr. Rabinowitz!

So happy to read this! Cheers, Lesgo, And thank you for the comment!

Wonderfully expressed! Thanks for commenting

Hahaha well said. That is right, hunting on foot, sometimes sleeping on trees, in treacherously difficult terrain, for days and sometimes weeks on end, is a marvelous feat of endurance and courage that few are blessed with. Not to mention, over half of his hunting exploits came when he was over the age of 50

You know I was just telling my friend about you and I spoke it and I wrote it not but it come out real good and you got a pretty good way with words and I know that Jim could have just Whipped the tar right out of a John L Sullivan wilderness After all he was a corbettand he (Kind of getting that from the famous Movie Flynn Carsen Smith hale and ward Bond) either way they certainly dint leave us with a rich interesting past

Well said 👍

That's right! 4 biographies and yet there's so much we don't know. Thanks, as always for your comment!

Yes, indeed! Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

Just doing what I enjoy. Thank you. Always good to hear from you Mr. Black!

@@selvalore I also meant to mention how much I appreciate your preamble before the actual start of the story. I hadn’t thought about the fact that Corbett was of course British and the British were none too popular in India at the time! Thank you for the background explanation. Good to see that the hill folk trusted Corbett and that he reached out to them bypassing difficulties between Indian and British people during those days..

You have summed it up, excellently.

Excellent! Always the writer of well thought out comments. And thanks for putting 'spoiler alert' on there!

That's truly wonderful. You' echo my own sentiments very well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Mr. Singh!

I'd sure like to have that book he sighed I can give you my address if you'd like to sell it to me? Lol I know you will treasure it always

Many thanks for your comment!

Indeed, most people dont realize what it takes to stalk a tiger on foot in the dark. The courage and confidence of Mr. Corbett was unmatched. His exploits to me were one of the most remarkable feats of bravery in history. Thank you for your excellent comment!

Thank you for the comment, Lee!

Always a delight to see your comment. Thanks for listening and for the support!

Thank you for the nice words. Much appreciated!

Hahaha, if it means anything, my girlfriend thinks the same. Totally oblivious to the charms of these adventure stories from natural history. Well, wouldn't life be easy if we could easily subject those around us to our own belief systems?! P.S. Your application has been duly approved!

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Well said, Bruce! Thank you for the comment, and good to see your name on here again.

Yes that was very well put

I appreciate the comment Eddie. Thanks for listening!

its a pet peeve of mine ....youtubers not bothering to research the correct pronunciation of place names--very insulting to the reader AND to the people who live there!

Beautifully written my friend, my feelings are exactly the same.

No question he was incredibly brave but Corbett the adrenaline junkie has a nice ring to it as well :)

Listen to Kenneth Anderson story's he took many crazy chances

Thanks for listening, as always!

My pleasure, thanks for your comment as always!

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks, I appreciate the comment, Mr. Davis!

Welcome, and nice to hear that. I do plan to keep going. Messages like these should keep me motivated.

Now that's good to hear. Thanks for taking out the time to share your thoughts.

That sixth sense saved Kenneth Anderson a couple times too

You're welcome. Full credit to the author here. Thanks for the comment.

I would have gotten this pinned if I didn't have something up there already. Love it!

Haha thanks for the comment, as always!

Thanks for the comment, Amit!

Thanks for the vote of confidence Mr. Bharos!

Thanks for listening to them all!

Welcome! Thanks for listening!

Very interesting! As a non-expert I'm in no position to comment on the last statement, but those family of words are almost always used in reference to the horse's gait. Corbett's editors at the Oxford University Press may have overlooked this minor point.

@@selvalore Thanks for your time. Once printed, certain things are too late to add Foot Notes to reflect evolution of technical words☺

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Cheers, thanks for watching from the great country of Italy!

My pleasure and thanks for listening!

Thanks for listening! Lovely to hear from a fellow Texan.

@@selvalore You're a Texan, based over here?

@@ashleyjudecollie Indeed, I'am.

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Nice to hear that. Thanks!

Thanks for listening Alex!

Thanks for the nice words Mr..Mathew. You're a talented musician! Beete Lamhe is one of my favorite sad songs.

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Thank you and good to hear from beautiful Srilanka!

@ 11:50 “…it was a HAMADRYAD!”. A hamadryad is another name for a “King Cobra”, the most venomous, largest snake in the world.

@@ashleynewton6651 thank you, I gues I should have realized that it was a king cobra by the description.

Thanks for listening Harpal Singh ji!

Excellent question. I have no idea, but would love to know myself. Hopefully, someone who knows would see this.

Thanks for listening, as always!

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Thank you for commenting, Mr. Maqsood. I understand your sentiments, but these are simply audiobooks and audiostories where one's imagination should reign supreme, much like reading a book.

Sure, thanks! Who's the author of that book?

Sir corrected my mistake. Book name "INDIA ADVENTURE STORIES" BY PATRICK GRIFFITH. COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES. 3 VOLUMES.

@@selvalore sorry my mistake.. Book name is "INDIA ADVENTURE STORIES" by PATRICK GRIFFITH. In 3 volumes. Collection of true jungle stories. Thanks sir

There are many. I have recorded a few of them so far (check out Hugh Allen, Arthur Strachan and ANW Powell's audio stories in the playlist) and many more are yet to come

Hello Carl! Thank you for your question and your keen interest. You are right, as you very astutely pointed out the inconsistency in the dates given in Corbett's accounts. As far as I know, according to some Corbett scholars, one of the 3 tigers that Corbett mentions in that district conference may not have been the Kanda man-eater, but the Talla Des man-eater, instead. This is all speculation ofcourse, done with a very thorough study of Corbett's books and letters to his friends and family. More details elude me at this moment, as it has been some time since I read about this. But I would ask you to refer to a book by the name of "Behind Jim Corbett Stories (both volume 1 and 2), co-authored by several Corbett scholars and fans. There is a chapter in the book (either in volume 1 or 2), dedicated to this very discrepancy that you talk about and the authors go in great detail and offer some explanations for this. Last time I checked, a pdf version of both the books is available for free on the internet. Thank you again and good luck!

I was hoping somone would notice!

Which accent would you consider neutral?

@@selvalore The ‘neutral’ Indian accent, the one that doesn't specify any regional recogs.

@@azshleavia2933 Okay so the neutral accent became a neutral 'Indian' accent now? That still remains an Indian accent. What you consider neutral will be heavily accented to the rest of the world. There is no true neutral accent. The accent that I'm employing has hints of American, Indian and British accents and should be understood easily by the widest cross-section of people from across the English speaking world. In any case, I narrate in a voice that comes naturally to me. Very few professionally trained voice actors can change accents at will, and fewer still will attempt to narrate entire passages and chapters in a non-native accent. And I'm neither of those two.

@@selvalore There is...