Man-Eaters of Tsavo Patterson John Paperback
Man-Eaters of Tsavo Patterson John Paperback In 1898 John H. Over the course of several weeks Patterson and his mostly Indian workforce were systematically hunted by two man-eating lions . Patterson…
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Man-Eaters of Tsavo Patterson John Paperback
In 1898 John H. Over the course of several weeks Patterson and his mostly Indian workforce were systematically hunted by two man-eating lions . Patterson arrived in East Africa with a mission to build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River.
As well as being stalked by lions, Patterson had to guard his back against his own increasingly hostile and mutinous workers as he set out to track and kill the man-eaters. In all, 100 workers were killed, and the entire bridge-building project was delayed. Patterson's account of the lions' reign of terror and his own attempts to kill them is the stuff of great adventure.
Consider this description of the aftermath of an attack by the lions: "...we at once set out to follow the brutes, Mr. Dalgairns feeling confident that he had wounded one of them, as there was a trail on the sand like that of the toes of a broken limb.... we saw in the gloom what we
Man-Eaters of Tsavo
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