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Conservation and sport

Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett

Duff Hart-Davis has written a spellbinding tale about an extraordinary conservationist: Jim Corbett. Such are the author’s skills as a countryman that the reader can almost feel the insect bites and tension in the jungle of late-19th-century Northern India.

Corbett had a deep empathy with wildlife. Due to a lonely childhood, he immersed himself in nature, learning to mimic

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