Origins
After much prompting by friends and family in 1935 Corbett finally put to paper seven accounts of his Jungle encounters. These were then made into a small book and 100 copies were privately published under the title 'Jungle Stories' and distributed amongst friends. The stories were titled; Wild Life in the Village: An Appeal, The Pipal Pani Tiger, The Fish of My Dreams, A Lost Paradise, The Terror that Walks by Night, Purna Girl and Its Mysterious Lights, The Chowgarh Tigers.
In 1943 whilst Corbett is wheelchair bound recovering from typhus fever, his close friend (R.E. Hawkins) and manager of India's branch of Oxford Press convinced Corbett to write a book for publishing. Using the 1935 Jungle Stories as a basis, Corbett writes The Man-Eaters of Kumaon (10 stories) which was first published by Oxford University Press in 1944.
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