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"The Jim Corbett Album" - discussion thread
      #168341 - 24/09/10 04:31 AM


Lt Col. James Edward Corbett




Family photo of James, possibly his brother Tom, mother Mary Jane and sister Maggie.


Photo collection thanks to Gurinder, an NE member

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      #168342 - 24/09/10 04:32 AM

Man Eater Collection


A child poses with the Man Eating Tiger of Talla Des.


The Bachelor of Powalgarh.


The body of the Man Eating Tiger of Chuka after it being skinned.


The Head of the Champawat Man Eater which was documented at being responsible for 436 deaths.




Two photos of the Maneater of Rudraprayag.


The Panar Maneater.


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      #168343 - 24/09/10 04:33 AM




A typical Corbett tented camp.


Having a smoke in Dhikala.


In later life, Corbett in Nyeri, Kenya.


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Re: "The Jim Corbett Album" - discussion thread [Re: NitroX]
      #168351 - 24/09/10 07:07 AM

Thanks for sharing these.

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      #168364 - 24/09/10 12:18 PM

My favourite author a bloke with no bunkum at all.

I fell right into his books when I read MOK in the Readers Digest Condensed books series at the old grandma`s and i reckon I might have been aged ten...Have all his books,great reading for sure..thrilling reading that is.


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      #168370 - 24/09/10 01:45 PM

I started reading his books borrowed from the Kensington Library in London, in 1988, as preparation for a trip through Africa. I borrowed lots of African hunting and exploring books, then found Corbett and got sidetracked a little, but nevermind.

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Re: "The Jim Corbett Album" - discussion thread [Re: NitroX]
      #168399 - 24/09/10 11:16 PM

I have all the books as well including "Tree Tops"

Does anyone have the biography that came out a few years ago?

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      #168447 - 26/09/10 12:05 AM

Some modern day photos thanks to Gatsby (Oz).























































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      #168448 - 26/09/10 12:17 AM


Thanks John. I have all books written by JC. He is or was a remarkable person. He ended up with being a good friend to J.A Hunter in Kenya. he was a lover of nature, and all animals made sence to him in Gods creation.
This thread here should be a "sticky".


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      #168449 - 26/09/10 12:36 AM

Jim Corbett’s home in Nainital, Gurney House is a 10 minute walk up the hillside from The Naini Retreat (Ayarpatta Slopes, Mallital, Nainital). Unlike his winter home at Kaldhungi which is now a well preserved museum and managed by the government, Gurney House has a lived-in feel even now. The house was sold to the present owner Dalmias’ granparents (Mrs and Mr SP Verma) when Corbett moved to Kenya. The Dalmias live in Delhi and visit their heritage property.

I visited Gurney House on a rainy day in July. It was still drizzling, but the caretaker Ganesh Joshi was all smiles. He showed us around the property, including the private museum that showcases the life and times of Jim Corbett and his sister Maggi Corbett. This house has a different feel from the Jim Corbett Museum at Kaladhungi, just 37 km downhill from Gurney House. It is not as huge as the Kaladhungi home, but the natural surroundings are amazing. As I unlatched the gate to Gurney House, the garden in full bloom, against a setting of rhododendrom (Buranaz in Kumaoni dialect), Angu, Tilaunj/Kharsu trees got me spellbound. I walked in with not a soul in sight. I even spotted a leech before the caretaker, Ganesh Joshi appeared to familiarize me with the place.


Jim Corbett - Biography
The legend of Jim Corbett is still alive, not only in the minds and hearts of the people of Kumaon & Garhwal, but also all over the world. His six books, which are the nearest to his autobiographies, have never been out of print. There are four biographies on him and three films on his life have already been made.

Edward James Corbett was born on 25thJuly 1875 of nglish ancestory in Nainital. He lived in Gurney House in Nainital for the greater part of his life with the last of his large family, his mother Mary Jane Corbett and his sister Margaret Winfred Corbett, fondly called Maggie.

His father, the postmaster in Nainital, died when Jim Corbett was four. It fell to Corbett’s mother to raise and educate 12 children on a widow’s meager pension. His mother, Corbett recalled, “had the courage of Joan of Arc and Nurse Clavell combined”. After the death of his mother in 1924, Maggie and Jim were constant companions to each other and both chose not to marry.

Jim Corbett was a simple, unassuming man of six feet and a few inches with blue eyes. He dressed only in bush clothing and wore an assortment of hats which he would never forget in the jungle. He was shy but liked the company of his Indian friends. He was known as a shikari, a killer of man-eaters. He loved the people of India and understood their needs and sentiments. It is for them that he risked his life many times to shoot the ten man eaters about whom he has written in ‘The Man Eaters of Kumaon’, Man Eating Leopards of ‘Rudraprayag’ and ‘The Temple Tiger’. He never shot a tiger or leopard until he was convinced that the animal had taken to man eating.

Much of his time was spent boating and angling on the lake in Nainital. Kaladhungi was his winter home. In the forests of Kaladhungi he learnt his first lesson in hunting from his eldest brother Tom. He hunted his first leopard at the age of six. Jim was blessed with an excellent eyesight, keen hearing, remarkable memory and the power of deduction and observation supplemented with toughness and courage. He could sing and play the guitar. For his living, he worked for 22 years (1892-1914) with the Bihar North Western Railways. He also operated a house-agenting business in Nainital.


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Re: "The Jim Corbett Album" - discussion thread [Re: rigbymauser]
      #168501 - 26/09/10 12:34 PM

Jim Corbett - A hunting legend, my childhood hero. Men of his caliber in my opinion no longer exist. Salute to this great soul.

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      #176171 - 25/02/11 02:04 AM



A very rare photograph of Jim Corbett, Capt Feddy Young & Col Wood having lunch after a duck shoot in the Ganga Khadar of distt Bijnor, photo taken during the period when Sultana was being hunted down.. (family collection ....jalilpur bijnor)



The gentlemen shielding his face with a shola hat is Ibbotson, Corbetts friend .The photo was taken after a partridge shoot in the khadir of distt bijnor ..the gentlemen laying down is from the famous Herssy family(courtesy .. jalilpur family ... bijnor)




Preparing Machaan for shooting 'Chuka maneater'




Skinning the Chuka man eater photo by Jean Ibbotson



With the relatives of last victim of 'Chuka Maneater'; Skull of the skinned maneater



Gurney House long way back. (Courtesy D.C.Kala)


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Re: "The Jim Corbett Album" - discussion thread [Re: DandyofPunjab]
      #176175 - 25/02/11 04:22 AM



Thanks for sharing.
Mr. Corbett, a great hunter.

Hope to se more photos from his life.

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      #176242 - 26/02/11 08:52 AM

Jikm Corbett's grand neice lives in Darwin, I will track down more info shortly.

No it is not a furphy, she is married to a bloke I know here.

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      #176243 - 26/02/11 10:41 AM

Some great pics there,thanks for them.Some long hoggies hanging up too.

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      #176318 - 28/02/11 04:50 PM

Quote:

Jikm Corbett's grand neice lives in Darwin, I will track down more info shortly.

No it is not a furphy, she is married to a bloke I know here.

Regards,

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Wow, it would be great if she had any artefacts that could be shared (and archived).

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      #181995 - 19/05/11 08:46 PM

What should I say about Sir Jim. Always feel short of words in front of his great hunting skills. He was unique in attributes and very much adept in Hunting since childhood. He not only hunted the beasts but conducted a thorough research upon the nature and existence of flora and fauna. That's why he became aware quite early that the species of tigers are endangered for extinction which moulded him into a renowned conservationist.

Some people never die despite of being physically vanished and Jim is one of them.


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      #189904 - 14/09/11 01:33 PM

Without doubt he is one of the greats, sadly of a bygone era!

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      #250500 - 15/07/14 10:40 PM





ROYAL Weapons of INDIA
The Jim Corbett's rifle, which now resides in the Elmer Keith Museum, at Cabela's, in Boise, Id. ( The Corbett rifle is the one below the Sharp)

"I own the late Jim Corbett's tiger rifle-the best quality boxlock .450-400(3") double rifle by W.J. Jeffery & Co., with which he killed so many man-eating tigers for the Indian government. He also used it in Africa. The brass-cornered oak and leather case is in fine shape, while the rifle shows more use and less abuse than any old rifle I have ever seen.

The metal is as bright as a silver dollar. The action is that good No. 2 Jeffery is sound and tight as a rat trap. Engraving shows up even better on the bright steel. Only traces of checkering are left. The stock ears are actually worn away from the frame, as is the butt of the stock from the engraved heel and toe plates.

The bores are grey in the grooves from cordite, and the lands are worn down about halfway, but there are no pits from neglect.

With Corbett lying out in tree crotches and machans in the rain waiting for tigers, this rifle was exposed to all kinds of weather. Jim Corbett had no Hoppes No. 9, or Rice's X-10 solvent, but I would bet he poured many gallons of water through these tubes. In spite of external wear, this .450-400 is as effective and accurate a hunting rifle as when turned out by W.J. Jeffery & Co.. I fired both barrels at a six inch bull's eye at 80 yards, shooting from a car window. The bullets(Kynoch 400 grain softnose) landed one inch apart, one directly over the other, both cutting the centerline of the target. Jim sold this rifle to a man from Vancouver, and my friend George Neary got it from him. I swapped a perfect .350 Elliot caliber Danial Frazer double ejector for it.

I would like to have known Jim Corbett. His book, Man Eaters of Kumoan, is a masterpiece on the Indian tiger and proves he knew more about life and habits, of that beast than any living man. I treasure his old rifle. You can judge a man by the condition of his rifle."

Elmer Keith




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This is the .275 Rigby-Mauser of Jim Corbett. Still I do not know where this gun is today.
Jim Corbett tells about the time he purchased and the first hunt with this rifle in his book "The Temple Tiger" the hunt did not go on as planed as the man Jim sent to get his big rifle found it locked in the suitcase so Jim decides to shot the tiger with this rifle. But when he pulled the trigger the gun did not fire, when Jim tried to reload the tiger heard the sound and ran away. Then Jim realised his mistake, The rifle was a double trigger and he had to squeeze the trigger a bit harder when it comes to a rest.

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      #250502 - 15/07/14 10:49 PM



Telegram Jim Corbett sent to his sister Maggie in 1932 to confirm he was safe and well after shooting the Kanda man-eater

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      #250505 - 16/07/14 12:05 AM


Wonderful stuff - thanks. The pictures and notation from Elmer Keith is special too.

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      #250518 - 16/07/14 03:31 AM

I love this stuff and Corbett's stories above all others. I have a copy of Maneaters of Kumaon which I re-read every 18 months or so when I've forgotten enough for it to seem fresh again. It has a great soothing effect on me when I read and I am undisturbed by the 'noise' which usually clutters my thoughts.

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      #250532 - 16/07/14 04:39 PM

Was just thinking of Jim Corbett the other day after the horrendous news of a 10 year old girl raped in India because her father had assaulted a man who had tried to take advantage of his wife. The village head ordered the child raped by the assaulted man as retribution for her fathers actions.

Jim relates in his story of the Muktesar man-eater how he came across a little girl of about 8 years old having problems driving a bullock along a remote track on which Jim was searching for sign of the man-eating tiger who had killed in the area recently. Jim helped get the bullock on track and walked with the girl to deliver the beast back to her uncle's home. Jim then made it his business to accompany the child safely back to her village while keeping an eye out for the errant tiger.
From the shy girl, whose name he translated as "Dolly", he gleaned valuable information on the latest kill site and the fact that one of her father's two bullocks was killed by the tiger a day earlier, hence the need to borrow one. The little girl knew it was man-eater territory but her father had malaria, her mother was cooking, she had no brothers and sisters, so the bullock delivery task had befallen her.

A stark contrast in human behaviour from animalistic sub-human to a kind and gentle man who loved the people of the nation he lived in.


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      #250534 - 16/07/14 06:51 PM

Quote:







ROYAL Weapons of INDIA
This is the .275 Rigby-Mauser of Jim Corbett. Still I do not know where this gun is today.
Jim Corbett tells about the time he purchased and the first hunt with this rifle in his book "The Temple Tiger" the hunt did not go on as planed as the man Jim sent to get his big rifle found it locked in the suitcase so Jim decides to shot the tiger with this rifle. But when he pulled the trigger the gun did not fire, when Jim tried to reload the tiger heard the sound and ran away. Then Jim realised his mistake, The rifle was a double trigger and he had to squeeze the trigger a bit harder when it comes to a rest.





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      #250568 - 17/07/14 08:41 AM

Very interesting thread about a great man.

Jeffery No 2 Best Quality Box Lock similar to Corbett's rifle. Scanned from a 1939 advertisement.



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      #251051 - 26/07/14 10:03 AM



Happy Birthday Jim Corbett.
Born 139 years ago today/yesterday - 25th July 1875.
Pictured here at Aged 22

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      #251066 - 26/07/14 03:31 PM

Had he been alive it would be one birthday party I would love to get an invite to.

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      #255656 - 24/10/14 09:37 AM

What a hunter was Jim.

Interesting to me is that the sambar wall shows the many variations very similar to the range of heads seen in Aus.

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      #256023 - 30/10/14 10:17 AM

He was certainly a one-off. We'll not see his likes again. Wonderful thread.

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      #265845 - 03/06/15 12:25 AM

I recently had the pleasure of a short stay in the hill station, Nainital in Uttarakhand, India. Nainital, along with Mussoorie, was one of the major hill stations both during the British Raj and also now in independent India. In May-June people try to escape the heat of the plains in the hills. Nainital is know for its beautiful lake, said to to be one of Sati's eyes that fell from the heavens.



Besides the lake, boat club and other great sites, one thing of interest is that is the site of Jim Corbett's family/summer home, Gurney House: Gurney House

The hills around Nainital are the famous Kumoan Hills that are familiar to readers of Corbett's books and also famous for the fierce qualities of their warrior people. (the Kumaon Regiment historically recruits from this area).

Corbett sold it to an Indian family when he left India at independence. However, the family has kept many of his furniture and hunting trophies in the home and while its a private residence they are very accommodating to visitors. I pasted over a hour drinking chai and talking about Corbett and Indian military history with the current family.
















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      #265852 - 03/06/15 04:25 AM

Thanks for posting this, always a great pleasure to see anything connected to Corbett. The house looks very cozy and inviting, as unpretentious as the man himself.

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      #266912 - 24/06/15 06:11 AM



The epitome of humanism, the epitome of humility.

Again and again I am avidly reading his books.

A righteous icon, a secular saint.

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      #370484 - 19/10/22 08:00 PM

Naini Tal club, from a postcard dated 1935.
In the Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag Jim mentions first hearing of the leopard whilst at the bar of the Chalet theatre. The Chalet theatre was a part of the club, with performances by the club Amateur Dramatic Society



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      #370485 - 19/10/22 08:01 PM

Jim Corbett relaxing in roorkhee chair in camp.



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      #370486 - 19/10/22 08:02 PM

A Jim Corbett Biography appeared in the Sporting Classics bi monthly Magazine (March-April 1986) with illustrations by Bob Kuhn.









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      #370487 - 19/10/22 08:04 PM

The Most Beautiful Deluxe Edition of Corbett’s Books: especially Man eaters of Kumaon by John Culler & Son (USA) with color portraits of tiger , bound in red leather with titles in gold, limited to only 1500 numbered copies. Culler printed all books by Corbett except Tree Tops . Man eaters of Kumaon is larger than the rest, and much taller than the original US edition of 1946. See images.

Published 30+ years ago by John Culler & Son in the US. There are two sets available on the ‘net for $600 -750.00 USD each.


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I've had them for many years, but I think I ordered them from Safari Press. My set is #952.


















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      #370488 - 19/10/22 08:05 PM



Sometimes the wheel turns.

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      #370489 - 19/10/22 08:05 PM

Grasslands Corbett







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      #370490 - 19/10/22 08:06 PM

One for jeep lovers.



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      #370491 - 19/10/22 08:07 PM

Corbett with his favourite Rifle, out hunting with Robin: Sculpture commissioned by the late Wilson Lundy, Life member of the Jim Corbett Foundation (estd. In 1994) in Canada (c) The Jim. Corbett public Group)


James Corbett miniature.



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      #370492 - 19/10/22 08:07 PM

Portrait of Jim Corbett with bird, originally as a photograph published in 1953 in Jungle Lore. The photo was taken at the then existed garden in front of the Paxtu cottage, Nyeri, Kenya where he lived with sister Maggie. (from the Wilson Lundy Collection)(c) The Jim Corbett Group.



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      #370497 - 20/10/22 12:48 AM

Excellent additions........thanks for posting!!!

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      #370508 - 20/10/22 01:33 PM

The portraits with Robin and with the bird are wonderful. Also they don’t diminish my fondness for colonial era sporting attire.

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      #370511 - 20/10/22 04:35 PM

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A Jim Corbett Biography appeared in the Sporting Classics bi monthly Magazine (March-April 1986) with illustrations by Bob Kuhn.












It would be great if someone could find a copy of this magazine. Perhaps get a pdf of the Corbett article for the Nickudu files.

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      #370512 - 20/10/22 04:41 PM

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The Most Beautiful Deluxe Edition of Corbett’s Books: especially Man eaters of Kumaon by John Culler & Son (USA) with color portraits of tiger , bound in red leather with titles in gold, limited to only 1500 numbered copies. Culler printed all books by Corbett except Tree Tops . Man eaters of Kumaon is larger than the rest, and much taller than the original US edition of 1946. See images.

Published 30+ years ago by John Culler & Son in the US. There are two sets available on the ‘net for $600 -750.00 USD each.


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I've had them for many years, but I think I ordered them from Safari Press. My set is #952.












The Culler Collection of red leather bound books contains six Corbett books. I've found one set for sale for US$750 ! I wish! But not at that price.

Does anyone know what the full Culler Collection includes?

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