Author: Jim Corbett
Publisher: Ponytale Books
ISBN: 9380637802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Jim Corbett is famous for his exploits as a hunter, but there was so much more to the man than tracking down man-eating tigers and leopards. In fact, ‘Carpet Sahib’ (as many Indians called him) was a conservationist at heart, with a deep love for jungles – its flora and fauna; and its inhabitants – the birds and the animals, and the people – who lived in the lush Kumaon hills. It is this side of Corbett that comes to the fore in Jungle Lore. Almost autobiographical in nature, Jungle Lore sees Corbett talk of his boyhood, the people he met, lessons he learnt in absorbing the jungle, his concern for the jungles and environment, and of course, there are doses of hunting expeditions too. There is even the odd story of detection and of supernatural sightings. Jungle Lore is the first book anyone should read on Jim Corbett. Simply because it is about Jim Corbett the man who went on to become a famous hunter.
Author: Miriam Davidson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The death of twenty-one Salvadoran refugees in the Arizona desert in 1980 made many Americans aware for the first time that people were strugglingÑand dyingÑto find political asylum in the United States. Tucsonan Jim Corbett first encountered the problem while attempting to help a hitchhiking refugee. What came of that act of altruism was a movement that spread across the country, challenged the federal government, and brought the refugee problem to national awareness. Corbett first worked within the law to help refugees process applications for asylum, but the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service soon began a program of arrests; then he began to smuggle refugees from the Mexican border to the homes of citizens willing to provide shelter, making hundreds of trips over the next two years; finally he enlisted the support of the Tucson Ecumenical Council and persuaded John Fife, pastor of the Southside Presbyterian Church, to open that building as a refuge. When legal action against Corbett and the others seemed imminent, Southside became, on March 24, 1982, the first of two hundred churches in the country to declare itself a sanctuary. Convictions of the Heart takes readers inside the santuary movement to reveal its founders' motives and underlying beliefs, and inside the courtroom to describe the government's efforts to stop it. Although the book addresses many points of view, its primary focus is on the philosophy of Jim Corbett. Rooted in the nonviolence of Gandhi, the Society of Friends, and Martin Luther King, Corbett's beliefs challenged individuals and communities of faith across the country to examine the strength of their commitment to the needs and rights of others.
Author: Jim Corbett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Author: Jim Corbett
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
ISBN: 9789353040666
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jim Corbett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Here, For The First Time, Three Classic Corbett Books Within The Covers Of One Hardback Voume, Jungle Lore; My India; Tree Tops.
Author: Jim Corbett
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Goats
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The author, who has spent much of his life tending goats in Arizona, recounts how he became one of the founders of the Sanctuary movement, helping political refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
Author: Patrick Myler
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
ISBN: 9781861052124
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Tim Werling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571571045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The riveting, true-life tales of the legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eating tigers and leopards he tracked and killed in India in the early part of the 1900s. One of the 20th century's greatest hunters and a noted naturalist, Corbett, in his memoirs, downplayed the courage and resourcefulness that marked his career. Retired Army officer Tim Werling has produced not only an accurate account of Corbett's exploits, but a book filled with gripping adventure.
Author: Madhav Mathur
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184751575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Pranav Kumar is: (a) An advertising executive (b) An aspiring writer (c) An anarchist (d) A fugitive from the Mumbai Police (e) All of the above Pranav Kumar has had enough. He’s sick and tired of being a corporate drone convincing people that their lives are meaningless without the newest product he’s peddling. He hates that commercialism is the new mantra and people actually believe that you are what you own. Pranav Kumar wants to change the world. But how does one man make a whole country question the way we are when no one is interested in listening? Pranav and his friends decide to capture the eyeballs of the nation and shake up the system. Their methods are unorthodox; their message unique. They take over a TV station; expose an environmental scam; strike out at patrons of brothels; sabotage a glitzy fashion show; and paint-bomb a local train. But as the Anarchists of Mumbai ignite sparks of a much larger movement; they realize that doing good comes at a price; that the means are as important as the ends and that being hunted by the Mumbai police is perhaps better than being hunted by contract-killers. Bold; fresh and darkly comic; The Diary of an Unreasonable Man is an exceptional debut.
Author: Jim Corbett
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 0198082894
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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This collection includes Jim Corbett's unpublished writings on man-eaters, nature, and his beloved Kumaon, personal letters, articles written for newspapers and gazettes by his contemporaries, and letters exchanged between Corbett and his publisher showcasing the development of his bestselling books-all from the archives of the Oxford University Press.
