NitroX
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| 06/02/06 02:54 PM |
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Re: MANEATER AND VICTIM
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I have all of Kenneth Anderson's books with me.However, his books are believed to be more on the line of pot boilers than true accounts.The adventures read well,though.Hope you have read Jim Corbett.I got all his collections,too.There is a Tiger census going on in India at the moment.The stats are not encouraging.Man-Animal conflicts and poaching are on the rise.In the Sariska Tiger reserve all the Tigers have vanished and an inquiry is on.Hope we won't lose the Big Stripes for ever.Best-Vikram.
Vikram,
Yes I heard while in India in December about the Sariska reserve. It still is in the papers. Hopefully a contact there will supply the results of the census to me as well as he promised to. It was supposed to have finalised a week or two ago, so I will email him.
Anderson's books? Yes I could see they may be fictional or have fictional elements. Good reads though. Lots of writers seem to fictionalise their 'accounts'.
Corbett is probably the best hunting author in my opinion and his books were some of the first I ever read. As preparation for a trip to Africa in 1988 I read a lot of African explorers and early hunters accounts and came across Corbett. What a find!