TIGERS
NINE MAN-EATERS AND ONE ROGUE, by Kenneth Anderson; George Allen and Unwin Ltd., English price 15/-. HIS is a book for those who would like a little tiger-hunting, a form of excitement I think I should not enjoy. The victims herein described-except the one rogue, which was "the rogueelephant of Panapatti’" -- were maneaters in the jungles of South-east India; and man-eaters, we are told, are rare and abnormal, and for their bad manners meet for destruction. The author obviously knows his jungle and the ways of its various creatures, and conveys to his readers both the atmosphere of the hunt and the excitement of the kill. Stories of tiger-hunting, when the tigers are mankillers, need no dramatisation, but simple realism makes inevitable "tensed nerves." "crashed bullets," "gleaming canines"
and "bloody mass."
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 14
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134TIGERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 14
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