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Title: Map-Eaters of Kumaon
Review: The book is about as insightful as reading an Englishman's take on tea. I found it to be laborious and bloated, almost to the point of self idiocy for the hunter, who was nothing but a murdering colonialist who had everything carried for him by Punjabi jungle slaves and used large caliber hunting rifles.If you really want to hunt "man eaters", then you track into the wild alone with your own gear and you use a spear or other primitive weapon. Some blathering and arrogant Englishman who shoots a defenseless beast with a 50 caliber long range rifle is hardly "brave". If you want a bragging book from someone who lied about his "feats", then pick this up.As George Bernard Shaw said, "when a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity."
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