Kanda Man-Eater by Jim Corbett (with introductory commentary) | Audiobook (English)
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2021
- Colonel Corbett shares his thoughts on sporting superstitions and goes on to reveal his own superstition before delving deep into his riveting narrative of his adventurous hunt for the Kanda man-eater in the Garhwal division of the Himalayan foothills in the year 1933.
Corbett's endurance, patience, and guile are put to the test as he finds himself in the domain of an apex predator.
There is also a poignant recounting of the extraordinary courage exhibited by an elderly villager who found himself faced with a gut-wrenching circumstance.
The story begins at 8:30, before which there is a short commentary on the petition sent to Colonel Corbett by the Garhwal villagers alongside some map interpretation of the places involved in the hunt.
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The audiobook start time is 8:30! The first 8 minutes is just me jabbering away at a few things that I thought some might find interesting. The petition connected to the hunt and some interpretation of maps is included here.
Thanks for listening!
I enjoyed your “jabbering”! Please feel free to include it in your future videos! ✌🏼💖
Loved it! Thanks for keeping these culturally and historically significant books alive. UA-cam will surely attract a younger and younger and more tech savvy crowd.
Feel free to pontificate anytime you want, it definitely added to the story.
plp
Thank you for all your work
Thank you million times.
As a school going kid, I read Corbett.
The stories and indeed the man himself have had a deep impact on me.
Not only because of the intrigue and excitement of the hunt, but Corbett's humility and his deep empathy for the hill folks.
Add to that his respect for the animals.
You style of reading and your voice are so perfect for the ethos of the entire set of adventures that I have no words to congratulate you enough.
Such readings can come only through the deep love and respect for the great man and even greater human being.
Wonderful words. I couldn't have said it any better.
Best comment award is yours for this one. Appreciate the encouraging words. Thanks for listening, Mr. Panchawagh!
Wonderfully said!!
Indeed, I have read a few other authors from this era and none of them were as captivating as Corbett. Excellently read as well!
I’m fascinated by these Corbett and Anderson stories. Eco tourism and entertainment from the comfort of my armchair!
Thanks for listening!
You might want to look for the Corbett books. They come in a pack of 5. Jungle Lore, My India, Maneaters of kumaon, the maneatung leopard of rudraprayag, and one more I've forgotten. Great reads if you like that stuff.
I will repeat what has already been said in the comments by others. You bring these amazing tales to life with your excellent narration. A narrator's voice can make or break an audiobook and yours is very well suited to these. Thanks and keep going. Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, ANW Powell, JE Turner, JH Patterson, and others should not be forgotten to history. Their works are historically and culturally relevant.
I'm familiar with all those names. All good options to read for any lover of the wildnerness. Great recommendations for future readings.
Superb, when you read Corbett its like Carpet Sahib himself.... Thank you for the effort.
That's a little too kind. Thank you Mr. Husayn. Always good to see your comment.
Stories of Jim Corbett & Kenneth Anderson presents a vivid picturesque of Indian forests & tribal life. Their hunting expeditions & anecdotes takes every one to their childhood days of story time
I love to read & listen to the audio again & again
Wonderfully expressed! Thanks for commenting
Another excellent, story by Mr. Corbett . Thank you for bringing it to the listeners and for your expert narration , well, done sir.
You're very welcome and thanks for listening Mr. Parog!
When you realize the kind of terrain Corbett hunted these maneaters it's almost unbelievable that any man could do it ! Hiking sometimes 30 miles to a village and traversing deep ravines and cliffs with sheer drop offs of 100 ft. or more and high altitudes of 8000 ft.. Then sleeping in a tree all night in a rain storm with a freezing wind. ! I bet Jim walked by SUPERMAN sobbing and trembling on the trail and patted him on the head and said ' Wait here and let Jim take care of this ' LOL
Hahaha well said. That is right, hunting on foot, sometimes sleeping on trees, in treacherously difficult terrain, for days and sometimes weeks on end, is a marvelous feat of endurance and courage that few are blessed with. Not to mention, over half of his hunting exploits came when he was over the age of 50
You know I was just telling my friend about you and I spoke it and I wrote it not but it come out real good and you got a pretty good way with words and I know that Jim could have just Whipped the tar right out of a John L Sullivan wilderness
After all he was a corbettand he (Kind of getting that from the famous Movie Flynn Carsen Smith hale and ward Bond) either way they certainly dint leave us with a rich interesting past
I’ve listened to all these stories now by Corbett and Anderson 3 or 4 times each. They entertain me while I’m working and I fall asleep listening to them at night. Your narration is very good too, thank you for sharing these tales with us.
So happy to read this! Cheers, Lesgo, And thank you for the comment!
People have really lost sight of what bravery and a hero really is. People that wear masks at work are called hero's now and it's ludicrous. These stories remind us what true bravery really is.
Well said 👍
Perfect timing! Thanks for putting these audiobookson YT. I appreciate all the effort that goes into producing these. 👍🏻
Nice to hear from you Mr. Rabinowitz!
My friend! You’ve done it again! Thank you so much. I wouldn’t dream of skipping that intro. So much of Jim’s life remains a mystery.
That's right! 4 biographies and yet there's so much we don't know. Thanks, as always for your comment!
Cheers.
I have never hunted dangerous game.
But deer, wild hogs, rabbits and birds etc.
My dad, who was a police officer and an accomplished marksman, taught me to handle a weapon.
He would only give me one cartridge or shell at a time.
And he would say “make it count.”
He carried more ammo.
I turned into a careful and accurate shooter.
No doubt a safer companion as well.
I love your readings.
Jim Corbett is a hero of mine.
Very nicely done again! Loved the inclusion of the petition in the beginning. The realism in Corbett's exceptionally thrilling stories is what made them so popular. While I know that Jim participated fully in the colonial enterprise and hosted shikar tours for officials I cannot bring myself to judge him for it as that was just a way of life back then. His conservation and humanitarian efforts later in life were indeed praiseworthy.
Yes, indeed! Thanks for your thoughtful comment.
My family hails from Uttarakhand and I can attest to the statement made at 7:99. My grandparents were rabid nature lovers and devoured Jim's books and passed them down to us. I own the very first edition of Man Eaters of Kumaon signed by Corbett through my Grandfather. Truly a treasure. I do think the younger generation is a little clueless about Corbett. They do know about the Corbett NP but only think of Jim as a shikari. You only have to read his other books to know that Corbett was much more than a shikari
That's truly wonderful. You' echo my own sentiments very well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Mr. Singh!
I'd sure like to have that book he sighed I can give you my address if you'd like to sell it to me? Lol I know you will treasure it always
Thank you so much Mr Singh for yet another wonderful description of an equally wonderful story. Many people are most grateful to you for doing this and I am one of them, thank you again.
Just doing what I enjoy. Thank you. Always good to hear from you Mr. Black!
@@selvalore I also meant to mention how much I appreciate your preamble before the actual start of the story. I hadn’t thought about the fact that Corbett was of course British and the British were none too popular in India at the time! Thank you for the background explanation. Good to see that the hill folk trusted Corbett and that he reached out to them bypassing difficulties between Indian and British people during those days..
You have summed it up, excellently.
I really like these Jim Corbett stories!
I want to thank you for all your hard work and dedication to this superb man.
I was so excited to see another upload from you! And I loved your “jabbering”, as you call it, in the beginning. You gave me a lot of insight. The included petition was also very touching.
SPOILER ALERT!!
The ending brought me to tears. That brave man, whose son was killed, got closure from Jim’s kind deed. I’m sure that acts like this, which show Jim’s boundless empathy for the people who lived amongst these man-eaters, are a large part of why the National Park bears Jim’s name. And also why his stories are still beloved even in these times. I can’t thank you enough for bringing these stories to my attention! ✌🏼💖
Excellent! Always the writer of well thought out comments. And thanks for putting 'spoiler alert' on there!
The father looking for his son knows not fear only hope
Well said, Bruce! Thank you for the comment, and good to see your name on here again.
Yes that was very well put
I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you doing these books...though my hunting days are long past I still love the hunt and especially listening to the stories of Jim Corbett...again thank you..
Thank you for the comment, Lee!
I want you to know that I have been able to physical books in years. So I really enjoy narrating these stories on youtube. Thank you for your hard work😊
Many thanks for your comment!
21:03 haha Corbett's "night of terror" while sitting up on the ground for the Rudraprayag Leopard still haunted him. What a man! I can't speak for others but I cannot even imagine taking a walk in the woods with wild animals. Let alone staying out in the dark all night in an area with very dangerous carnivores around and that too all by oneself. Corbett may have been the ultimate adrenaline junkie or just a very brave man.
Beautifully written my friend, my feelings are exactly the same.
No question he was incredibly brave but Corbett the adrenaline junkie has a nice ring to it as well :)
Listen to Kenneth Anderson story's he took many crazy chances
Thank you Mr A V Singh I don’t want to spell your name incorrectly for your absolutely fantastic narration in these videos.
I also admire Jim Corbett he must have had nerves of steel I know he says from his own words that hunting man eaters put him under considerable strain and pressure. I don’t think any man on this earth would not be scared out of their wits stalking something that you can’t always see and could rip you to shreds.
My own grandfather spent around 22 years in India and South Africa during the British Raj so the country and its people fascinate me.
Once again thank you for narrating these videos.
A resident of the UK.
Indeed, most people dont realize what it takes to stalk a tiger on foot in the dark. The courage and confidence of Mr. Corbett was unmatched. His exploits to me were one of the most remarkable feats of bravery in history.
Thank you for your excellent comment!
I. Read all. These stories. Years. Ago. And find. Them. Still. Good. And exiting. Mr. Corbett. Was a diamond. Helping these villagers. With. Tiger and leopard predation !!!!
Always excited to see you have uploaded, looking forwards to hearing this one 👍
Thanks for listening, as always!
Wow, thanks for taking the time once again for recording this, and for your research for this story! Your narration skills are impeccable!!
Thank you for the nice words. Much appreciated!
Saw a new Jim Corbett story . Thanks saving it for quiet time to enjoy. Thank you I love these maneater stories.
My pleasure, thanks for your comment as always!
“Now we get to the fun part”
Me- THAT WASNT ALREADY THE FUN PART?! LETS GOOOO!!!
I keep trying to share my fascination with stories like this with my friends and they look at me like I’m a lunatic. I hereby submit to you my application for friendship🤗
Hahaha, if it means anything, my girlfriend thinks the same. Totally oblivious to the charms of these adventure stories from natural history.
Well, wouldn't life be easy if we could easily subject those around us to our own belief systems?!
P.S. Your application has been duly approved!
@@selvalore tomorrow’s headline:
Friendship Over With Bob Gymlan
Now SELVA LORE is My Best Friend
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Been addicted to these here lately. You do an amazing job.
Thanks for watching. Love the username
I have read Corbett's books my entire life. I have them all. I really glad to hear them read out loud so I can hear the correct pronunciation of the places he hunted.
I appreciate the comment Eddie. Thanks for listening!
its a pet peeve of mine ....youtubers not bothering to research the correct pronunciation of place names--very insulting to the reader AND to the people who live there!
Thanks again and don't worry about your jabbering ,I thought it was very interesting and love the map idea. I appreciate all your hard work to produce a fantastic channel. Jim
Always a delight to see your comment. Thanks for listening and for the support!
Excited for your next reading 😃
Your introductions are excellent and they give us extra insight into the stories that follow.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment, Mr. Davis!
Yay.. you made my day. Thank you so much
Welcome! Thanks for listening!
Never a disappointment even your jabbering i have learned something lol thank you as always
Haha thanks for the comment, as always!
✌Finally got around to listening to this and I must say that the quality of narration and the audio has gotten so much better. Jim Corbett's writings and books are a delight. Please keep at it, and thanks for all the hard work and for volunteering your time like this.
Awesome, thank you!
Fuckin Corbett Mann. His stories are incredible. And the man had steel balls so heavy that wheelbarrows blow out tires trying to Carry them around
I would have gotten this pinned if I didn't have something up there already. Love it!
I feel so bad for the man who lost his son!
Brilliant!
Even Jim Corbett admits that he had a sixth sense which warned of danger!
That sixth sense saved Kenneth Anderson a couple times too
Another great one
Thnx for Sharing, love them jungle stories
Thanks for the comment, Amit!
Love your work, more please😊
Hello, Thanks for much awaited rendering of Kanda maneater. The prelude commentary is appropriate , kudus for it. Now awaiting Chuka and Pipalpani episodes. My best wishes.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Mr. Bharos!
A great listen. 👍
Thanks for listening!
You have mme absolutely fascinated with these stories, i can't stop listening to them, cheers mate
You're welcome. Full credit to the author here. Thanks for the comment.
Marvellous reading. Thanks for entertaining us with these jungle stories. I have always listened to these audiobooks from my TV so today I logged in from a computer to leave a comment. Please carry on and if I may say, I would love to hear Tsavo Maneaters, the full book in your voice. God bless!
Now that's good to hear. Thanks for taking out the time to share your thoughts.
I have been thoroughly enjoying your readings. Please, please keep doing these. They are fascinating tales. I listen while driving on long trips and in bed prior to sleep. Thank you.
Welcome, and nice to hear that. I do plan to keep going. Messages like these should keep me motivated.
Very good !!!!
Thanks for listening Alex!
That was awesome
Thanks made my morning 👍
My pleasure and thanks for listening!
All I want to say is thank you!! Thank you so much for these amazing stories and and your voice makes them more adventurous.. this is my sleep time routine now... have tried searching you on social media do share your Links.. :)
Thanks for the nice words Mr..Mathew. You're a talented musician! Beete Lamhe is one of my favorite sad songs.
I’m addicted to your channel. I make sure I’ll Never miss a story !!!
Thanks for listening to them all!
fill in away my friend, I love this stuff
Great narration very enjoyable
Thanks for listening!
Good job bro! Thanks from Italy
Cheers, thanks for watching from the great country of Italy!
Thank you
The yapping in the beginning was very relevant and interesting ✌🏻👍🏻
Nice to hear that. Thanks!
I loved to listen full video...pls upload more.. thanks
Thanks for listening Harpal Singh ji!
Love this. I've heard other people read the Champawat story, but their accent was a little too hard for me to understand, as an American from Texas. I know it's hard to learn multiple languages, but it helps me to enjoy this story much more.
Thanks for listening! Lovely to hear from a fellow Texan.
@@selvalore You're a Texan, based over here?
@@ashleyjudecollie Indeed, I'am.
👍Thanks for another story.
Around 27:00 Minute mark, the author says "cantor"
Modern locomotion studies assign 4 Gears. First = Walk, Second = Trot, Third = Cantor, Fourth = Gallop.
Horse families clearly show all for.
However Cat families lack the third, cantor.
Very interesting! As a non-expert I'm in no position to comment on the last statement, but those family of words are almost always used in reference to the horse's gait. Corbett's editors at the Oxford University Press may have overlooked this minor point.
@@selvalore Thanks for your time. Once printed, certain things are too late to add Foot Notes to reflect evolution of technical words☺
Does anyone know how to spell the name of the species of snake mentioned around the 12 minute mark?
@ 11:50 “…it was a HAMADRYAD!”. A hamadryad is another name for a “King Cobra”, the most venomous, largest snake in the world.
@@ashleynewton6651 thank you, I gues I should have realized that it was a king cobra by the description.
thnx
Thankyou for Corbett stories. Now awaiting for Bachelor of Powalgarh & more...
Thanks for listening!
Enjoying your content from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Keep up the good work.
Thank you and good to hear from beautiful Srilanka!
Well done and thanks for the upload and the thoughtful discussion. I would love to know if the photograph of that Corbett alludes to in the last segment survives to this day? I know that several of Corbett's photos of maneaters taken with the villagers have survived like the Rudraprayag leopard and the Talla Des Tigress but I wasnt aware of any photographs of the Kanda tiger
Excellent question. I have no idea, but would love to know myself. Hopefully, someone who knows would see this.
Yess Sleep is gonna be much enjoyable today...was waiting for the upload ✌🏻❤️
Thanks for listening!
THANKS SON BEEN WAITING FOR THIS. ALSO PLEASE DO THAK MAN EATER. DONT SAY JABBERING SON IT IS MOST WELCOME. GOD BLESS YOU.
Thanks for listening, as always!
From your experience, are there other stories beyond Corbett and Anderson that tell of these amazing tales in the jungles of India?
There are many. I have recorded a few of them so far (check out Hugh Allen, Arthur Strachan and ANW Powell's audio stories in the playlist) and many more are yet to come
Escuchado como 3 veces
Also I would like to say when you are listening to your narration and how sorry you feel at one point for the desperation of the village people and then you feel condemnation for them not going to try and help one of there number whose just been carried in the jaws of the tiger.
Then you sit back and reflect what would I have done in those circumstances and then the answer comes, probably exactly the same for I would have scared out of my wit’s.
it would be great if these stories re told in amination of some kind or still photos animation to give some context to viewers
Thank you for commenting, Mr. Maqsood. I understand your sentiments, but these are simply audiobooks and audiostories where one's imagination should reign supreme, much like reading a book.
Please try a book named "INDIA ADVENTURE STORIES" BY PATRICK GRIFFITH . It has 3 parts. I love your videos. Your videos are very interesting entertaining and relaxing
Sure, thanks! Who's the author of that book?
Sir corrected my mistake. Book name "INDIA ADVENTURE STORIES" BY PATRICK GRIFFITH. COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES. 3 VOLUMES.
@@selvalore sorry my mistake.. Book name is "INDIA ADVENTURE STORIES" by PATRICK GRIFFITH. In 3 volumes. Collection of true jungle stories. Thanks sir
If i recall correctly,,, That was not all,, the brave man told jim corbettt,,, was it??
I like the name change
I was hoping somone would notice!
If I Do Not Wrong , Kanda Man Eater Has 7 Victims of Human Being
Thank you. Can you help look into a perceived discrepency in the time line regarding the Kanda man eater?
Corbett mentions the District Conference commiting him to go after the first the Chowgargh and later the Mohan and Kanda man eater as having been held in 1929.
The Garwal Petition, as read here, is dated 1933 and states "a tiger hast turned out man eater since December last".
That would be Dec 1932, not 1929.
Where there two man eaters around Kanda?
Timelining Corbett from his writings ist a hobby and this one puzzles me.
Thanks for all your great work.
Hello Carl!
Thank you for your question and your keen interest. You are right, as you very astutely pointed out the inconsistency in the dates given in Corbett's accounts.
As far as I know, according to some Corbett scholars, one of the 3 tigers that Corbett mentions in that district conference may not have been the Kanda man-eater, but the Talla Des man-eater, instead. This is all speculation ofcourse, done with a very thorough study of Corbett's books and letters to his friends and family. More details elude me at this moment, as it has been some time since I read about this. But I would ask you to refer to a book by the name of "Behind Jim Corbett Stories (both volume 1 and 2), co-authored by several Corbett scholars and fans. There is a chapter in the book (either in volume 1 or 2), dedicated to this very discrepancy that you talk about and the authors go in great detail and offer some explanations for this.
Last time I checked, a pdf version of both the books is available for free on the internet.
Thank you again and good luck!
Agar hindi maye vidio dekhege haye tau vidio dikhaiye nahi tau vidio na dikhaiye.
Kanda Man Eater Has 7 Human Victims ,
If it was in hindi then more people would have watched
Why not narrate the stories in a neutral accent.
Which accent would you consider neutral?
@@selvalore
The ‘neutral’ Indian accent, the one that doesn't specify any regional recogs.
@@azshleavia2933 Okay so the neutral accent became a neutral 'Indian' accent now? That still remains an Indian accent. What you consider neutral will be heavily accented to the rest of the world. There is no true neutral accent.
The accent that I'm employing has hints of American, Indian and British accents and should be understood easily by the widest cross-section of people from across the English speaking world.
In any case, I narrate in a voice that comes naturally to me. Very few professionally trained voice actors can change accents at will, and fewer still will attempt to narrate entire passages and chapters in a non-native accent. And I'm neither of those two.
@@selvalore There is...
Corbett and Anderson are real life versions of Alan Quatermain, the erstwhile hero of H. Ryder Haggard's books
the Hamadryad is another name for the King Cobra ... a very handsome snake