Man Eating Terror of Chamala Valley by Kenneth Anderson | Audiobook (English) 

A Human narrator puts this channel head & shoulders above nearly all of the other 'Rogues & Maneaters' type story channels, most of which use those ridiculous robot narrators. Well done, have a Sub & a thumb up, plus I'm gonna binge watch every story you uploaded. 😁

Audio is wonderful

Mr. Singh...once again you have produced another riveting rendition...btw, I am virtually positive that if I attempted to pronounce the village names in these stories, I'd dislocate my jaw...hahaha... Thank you...!!!

Hello sir happy to hear your stories as just a request can we get the same in Hindi audio please

Hear hear!

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Thanks for your comment, Claire!

You read the Jim Corbett stories?

Much appreciated, John! Cheers and best wishes!

You're right about that, Joe. Thanks again for all your interest in these audio tales.

@@selvalore Thankfully I discovered your channel while looking for information about the Maneaters of Tsavo. Obviously that is not an Indian tale but I can imagine you would make an amazing job were you to ever cover it. Keep up your amazing work. Thank you from Ireland.

He was indeed a brave man and once on aa maneaters trail his fate was sealed like Jim Colbert he cared deeply about the people the Maneaters prayed on and knew the terror they had to live and die with but he took so many chances sitting on the ground when there was no suitable tree surely a angel was protected him the people of India could sure use men like him and Jim Colbert today but today it seems the Maneaters life's are valued much more than those poor people

Cheers for the comment!

Much appreciated. Always good to hear from you!

Thanks Harshat. My roots are in Uttarakhand too. Happy to hear you are finding value in these readings.

@@selvalore Do you have suggestion for more books/authors on this genre? I have read Jim Corbett, reading Kenneth now and read Tsovo Lions.

Hugh Allen's lonely tiger is an excellent choice. John Hewett's 'Jungle Trails in Northern India' is a good travel book with wildlife adventures. Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson would be hard to match though. Internationally, Peter H Capstick's 'death in the long grass' and 'death in silent places' are amazing reads. People also like Horn of the hunter by Robert Ruark.

Indeed they are. Thanks for leaving a comment. Have a great weekend Marc!

Always good to see your cooment. Thanks!

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So good to hear that. Thanks for your comment.

Wonderful! Thanks for the comment.

Thanks. Lovely to hear from beautiful Jamaica!

Thank you for a marvellous comment!

Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for your comment!

Much appreciated. Thanks for listening!

My pleasure and thank you for commenting!

Thank you for saying that. Cheers!

Thank you for watching!

Thanks for your comment.

You were very lucky

Much appreciated! Thanks for the wonderful comment.

Thanks for your comment.

Such a wonderful, heartfelt message! Thank you, sir!

Yes, thanks for listening Mr. Hassan!

You're very welcome. That is an excellent book by Mr. Joshua Mathews but I cannot read it without his or the publisher's permission.

Thank you for the comment Mr. Joshi.

Great to hear that. Thanks for the comment Mr. Stone!

Mr. Mead, thanks for the comment. That's a good suggestion. I may need to think about putting some sort of geographical markers in the videos. Although I'm very familiar with the story from the Jungle Books, I admit I was not aware of George Sanderson. And your assumption about its proximity to the Toomai country is correct.

While I don't know of any instance of Anderson ever mentioning Corbett directly, it is almost a certainty he was influenced by Corbett, just as Corbett was influenced by Samuel Baker and J H Patterson. Anderson's first book was published right around the time when Corbett was at the height of his fame so its likely Anderson knew and had read the works of his famous contemporary in the north.

@@selvalore thank you sir, your narration is most excellent

Thanks!

Thanks. But that's a lot of work and there aren't enough stories.

I have been doing those in some of my later videos. Thanks for the suggestion.

Interesting perspective! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. As a counteepoint, I would push back on the idea that tigers were evolving to be maneaters at the turn of the 20th century. Tigers are apex predators and an obligate carnivore. They are evolved for eating flesh, whether human or animal. Its well documented that big cats would occasionally predate on humans in the past. Humans might not be their preferred choice of food but if the opportunity arises, a big cat will not hesitate to attack human beibgs for food. This has been going on since the dawn of time. At the turn of the 20th century, a few intersecting events such as the presence of British hunters with high powered rifles and the early beginnings of human encroachment into tiger's domain, coincided with each other. Tigers were being massacred in the the hundreds for game, while a few of them would occasionally turn to killing humans for various reasons, as has always been the case. The key is that this time period was the zenith for shikar literature, and more and more instances got documented in books. Tigers kill numerous people in India even today. But most of it is handled by the wildlife experts and park officials, unlike in the past when a certain Jim Corbett or a Kenneth Anderson would have been dispatched to handle it.

You are mistaken there are many maneaters in India today but they are not allowed to be killed in most cases instead they try to catch them alive while they run free and kill more people while the people live in terror cause thy are unarmed thank God and our founding fathers for our 2nd amendment here in America

Tiger numbers have been on the rise in India since the British left. Man-eating today is very common in the Sundarbans area. Even in other areas it occurs occasionally. The main problem tigers face in India today is a lack of wilderness habitat for their expanding population (the reserves are now too small for them). Regardless they will not go extinct. Even the lion population in India has risen past 700, from around 50 at the end of colonial rule.

There's a FB group devoted to KA. People on there might know about this.

Hahaha! Thanks for your interest in these stories.

Thanks for listening Sandeep!

Fair point! Thank you for the comment.

Yes, indeed you are right. He did get attacked while he was trying to climb a tree. I don't remember which book of his has details of the incident though

@@selvalore I've recently subscribed to your channel. Excellent work on a topic I never quite thought about. If you end up finding out, please link me to your rendition of the book of this instance

@@andreg2727 Hello Andre. The story that Mr. Boswell is referring to is called Marauder of Kempekarai from the book Man Eaters and Jungle Killers written by Kenneth Anderson. I might be wrong but that's my best guess. And I have not done an audio recording of that story yet. Thank you for listening!

@@selvalore it happened when was sitting up over a kill in a tree at night the tiger c0me the tree high enough to lightly claw his behind but deep enough that infection could have been possible because of the rotten meat under a tigers claws

Yes he was clawed by the tiger in Marauder of Kempagarai

Haha, you bet! Tropical monsoon forests with snow. Why not?!

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No it was a lever action Winchester

That's amazing. Alaska is enchanting. And I totally agree with your point about the dark. It takes real courage to just be out there in the wilderness after dark.

I missed this earlier. Lol yeah he did. Well, thanks for the comment.