Author: CORBETT, JIM,
Title: Menseneters van Kumaon [Menscheneters on frontcover dustjacket). [Translated from the original english Man-eaters of Kumaon, by Jan Spierdijk. First edition, thus]. Preface by Lord Linlithgow (Viceroy of India).
Description: Amsterdam/Antwerpen, Contact, [..], 1948. Small 8°. Original boards. Line drawing on front cover with title in black type at tail. Dustjanket(xiv), 214pp. Glossary Indian language-dutch,, Preface and Introduction. [Publication devoted to those women and men blinded in the course of the Second World War]. Dutch language edition narrating the story of Jim Corbett, a British Indian Army Officer, hunting for man-eating tigers during a period of 32 years, Kuamon district, set at the feet of the Himalayas, India. Local villagers were terrorized by man-eating tigers. Good copy, with DUSTJACKET. 9Dustjacket heavily frayed and damaged at top of spine, some general scuffing).

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