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Title: Enter a Vanished World
Review: The world that Jim Corbett wrote about -- his life as a whitehunter of man-eating tigers and leopards in India early in thiscentury -- is as vanished as that of the Ancient Greeks. TheEmpire he believed in is gone, the beasts he stalked so relentlesslyare now themselves endagered species... But there's a reason hisbooks have remained in print for two generations. He writes withoutguile or pretention, revealing a great respect for the jungle andfor the animals he hunts, and also providing a window into theimperial mentality -- a frank paternalism towards non-whitesand villagers in particular that in these politically correctdays is as refreshingly honest as it is shocking. And one otherthing -- while Corbett is modest almost to a fault, he was a manof remarkable courage. Sometimes the only way to stalk a predatoris to let the predator stalk you. His books have no shortage ofthrills and chills.
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