Author: James ‘Jock’ Wilkinson
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398420859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is an account of four and a half years spent hunting man-eaters in the jungles of southern India. It also mentions some of the people the author met. There is also a description of the areas mentioned in the book. Finally, the book is a plea to the world that no effort should be spared in preserving the panthers and tigers of the Indian subcontinent.
Shikari Shaitan
Author: James ‘Jock’ Wilkinson
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398420859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is an account of four and a half years spent hunting man-eaters in the jungles of southern India. It also mentions some of the people the author met. There is also a description of the areas mentioned in the book. Finally, the book is a plea to the world that no effort should be spared in preserving the panthers and tigers of the Indian subcontinent.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398420859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is an account of four and a half years spent hunting man-eaters in the jungles of southern India. It also mentions some of the people the author met. There is also a description of the areas mentioned in the book. Finally, the book is a plea to the world that no effort should be spared in preserving the panthers and tigers of the Indian subcontinent.
Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The New Shikari at Our Indian Stations
Author: Julius Barras
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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SHAITAN
Author: GERARD REDMOND
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304260410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
An American professional hunter is hired to rid northern India of a man-eating tiger, an animal that has killed 260 people. On his quest to destroy the creature he discovers the complex culture of India in the 1920's.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304260410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
An American professional hunter is hired to rid northern India of a man-eating tiger, an animal that has killed 260 people. On his quest to destroy the creature he discovers the complex culture of India in the 1920's.
Tracking the Weretiger
Author: Patrick Newman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style. Fundamental to the book is the evocation of a long-vanished world. When a man-eater struck in colonial times, people typically said it was a demon sent by a deity, or even the deity itself in animal form, punishing transgressors and being guided by its victims' angry spirits. Colonials typically dismissed this as superstitious nonsense but given traditional ideas about the close links between people, tigers and the spirit world, it is quite understandable. Other man-eaters were said to be shapeshifting black magicians. The result is a rich fund of tales from India and the Malay world in particular, and while some people undoubtedly believed them, others took advantage of man-eaters to persecute minorities as the supposed true culprits. The book explores the prejudices behind these witch-hunts, and also considers Asian weretiger and wereleopard lore in a wider context, finding common features with the more familiar werewolves of medieval Europe in particular.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style. Fundamental to the book is the evocation of a long-vanished world. When a man-eater struck in colonial times, people typically said it was a demon sent by a deity, or even the deity itself in animal form, punishing transgressors and being guided by its victims' angry spirits. Colonials typically dismissed this as superstitious nonsense but given traditional ideas about the close links between people, tigers and the spirit world, it is quite understandable. Other man-eaters were said to be shapeshifting black magicians. The result is a rich fund of tales from India and the Malay world in particular, and while some people undoubtedly believed them, others took advantage of man-eaters to persecute minorities as the supposed true culprits. The book explores the prejudices behind these witch-hunts, and also considers Asian weretiger and wereleopard lore in a wider context, finding common features with the more familiar werewolves of medieval Europe in particular.
The Heath Hover Mystery
Author: Bertram Mitford
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Shikari Shaitan
Author: James 'Jock' Wilkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781398420847
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is an account of four and a half years spent hunting man-eaters in the jungles of southern India. It also mentions some of the people the author met. There is also a description of the areas mentioned in the book. Finally, the book is a plea to the world that no effort should be spared in preserving the panthers and tigers of the Indian subcontinent.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781398420847
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is an account of four and a half years spent hunting man-eaters in the jungles of southern India. It also mentions some of the people the author met. There is also a description of the areas mentioned in the book. Finally, the book is a plea to the world that no effort should be spared in preserving the panthers and tigers of the Indian subcontinent.
A Mixed Bag
Author: Charles Cecil Rowe Murphy
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
United Empire
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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The Duab of Turkestan
Author: Willi Rickmer Rickmers
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Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description