Tales From The Indian Jungle

When I ordered this book, I didn't realize that I was buying an "E-book". I didn't want an E-book. Conxequently6, I never even looked at it, and probably never will. Money totally wasted!For people who don't know about "E-books", they should make it clear that this is what you are ordering. I have NO use whatever for E-boooks!

The book is based on the writer's multiple and personal hunting experiences with man-eating/problem tigers and leopards in India

Do not recommend. Thought it was about hunting in India but is sort of a silly voodoo-type stories. Poorly written as well.

Has some entertaining and informative passages, but not nearly as good as I had hoped. Money better spent on books by Peter Hathaway Capstick and Jim Corbett.

Another good book by Kenneth Anderson.Tells of South Indian jungles and animals from a long time ago.Shows what the Indian jungles were like and makes one wish it could be like that even now.

Classic reading.

All u shikar tale enthusiasts out there! this man writes the best ,even better than corbett and believe me I have read them all

Great book...excellent service!

This book was first published in 1970(2001), has 225 pages, 8 chapters, 1 drawing, 8 B/W photos and 2 maps. KENNETH DOUGLAS STUART ANDERSON was born in 1910 in British India and was educated at Bishop Cotton Boy's school and St Joseph's College, Bangalore. His daughter JUNE (1930) resides in Australia and his son DONALD(18.2.1937)has recently died (12.7.2014), aged 80 in Bangalore. Anderson got a rifle from his father. He went to jungle alone, unarmed, to meditate. As a hunter, he tracked down 8 man-eater tigers and 7 leopards and few rogue elephants. He was a devotee of 'Satya Sai Baba' and carried a 'talisman' from the Baba for protection. He spent later years in wildlife conservation. He also wrote a novel "Fires of Passion", highlighting Scottish people in South India. He died aged 64, on 30.8.1974, of prostate cancer. He always said, he would never leave India for England or Australia, because he loved India and its life and it was his home.The book starts with Anderson camped at the sandy bank of Cauvery River and his gunbearer wakes him up at 4am. After hot tea, they head for Ponachimalai peak (5,000ft) 6 miles away. A Sambar gives alarm followed by Langur monkey, jungle sheep and spotted deer. The jungle was also filled with herbs and plants to cure human ailments. Suddenly the panther (leopard) grabs the spotted deer and her fawn.Ogre- the tiger at Ballunder, Mysore was trapped and given a spear wound. Johnson, in the railway service tried to bag a tiger, but just wounded it. Months later, a man-eater tiger started its gruesome work on villagers. The local Dr Stanley, sends for Anderson. They both shot at the tiger and missed. A ground hole is dug and Anderson sits in it at night, next to the human remains. Then Anderson realises, there could be 2 tigers out there. When he raised his head out of the hole, there was no sign of the tigers. Then he hears screams of 2 people away in their huts. Next morning, Anderson saw a dead woman and her body stuck in the wall of the hut, where the tiger had tried to drag her out. Sitting over the human remains, Anderson and Dr Stanley manage to shoot both tigers. The man-eaters turned out to be a tigress with her mate.Woodcutters see a very large tiger basking in the evening Sun on a small hillock near Amligola. This Gownduorai (aristocrat) male tiger started killing large bull cattle. Because of the mating season, the large tiger was courting a tigress. When Anderson followed them, he had to climb a tree to save himself. A herdsman had shot the large tiger in the face and had partially blinded it. Next he killed his first human victim. When another human kill is made, Anderson sits on a machan (platform) and shoots the tiger and a leopard, who both were obviously man-eaters.While visiting the Digvuametta railway Station and staying in the forest bungalow, a leopard takes the owners dog away at night. Then 2 adults and a young girl are taken. Anderson sits near the mouth of the Railway line tunnel, where the human cadaver was lying. The leopard sneaked from behind and Anderson shot him at point blank range.While travelling in his Ford Model-T near Gerhetti, Anderson sees a leopard in the tree, who jumps onto his car and then vanishes. The same leopard ambushed a donkey from the same branch. The leopard then charged the owner and then disappeared. Hearing the cries, Anderson came and took the owner to the hospital, but he died. Then a boy gone to a waterhole does not return and a woman and a lad is dragged. Anderson had to shoot the leopard.After the cattle killer tiger had turned man-eater and taken 5 men at Lakhavalli, Anderson goes to help his friend Dick -the postmaster. By now, a worker at Dam construction had been taken into the forest by the tiger. Following the tiger, they lost his trail, possibly into a cave or the old Munneswara temple. Anderson, later investigates. The tiger charges and was shot 4 times.Anderson, and his son -Donald, go into the jungle to photograph the wildlife. A machan is built covered with tarpaulin, as the sky was clouding over. The tiger's "Oo-oongh" silences all the wildlife in the forest. Hearing this majestic sound, the leopard made his own angry sound "Haa-ha" "Haa-ah" "Haa-ah"! Thunder and lightening increase. A wild bull elephant appears and charges Donald's tree, flattening the platform. When Anderson and Donald scream, the elephant escapes, not before flattening the camera. Soon they leave tiger-land for home.This another of Anderson's book which keeps you interested till the end.Some other book by Kenneth Anderson are:-(1) Nine Man-eaters and one Rogue, 1954(2011)(2) Man-eater and Jungle Killers, 1957(2011)(3) The Black Panther of Sivanipalli, 1959(2002)(4) The Call of the Man-eater, 1961(2002)(5) This is the Jungle, 1964(2005)(6) The Tiger Roars, 1967(2012)(7) Fires of Passion, 1969(8) Jungle Tales for Children, 1971(2012)(9) Jungles Long Ago, 1976(2012)having born in Kenya, I enjoyed reading this book.

Great read

I'm warming to this man's style of writing. A bit unfair to compare him with Corbett, but inevitable. Not nearly as meticulous.Certainly gets involved in some hair-raising encounters and lucky to escape.

good read!

A superb read by another White Hunter who captures the readers interest in an absorbing subject and one is mesmorized by the narrative.