Long before Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson, other men hunted India's man-eaters, and their stories were forgotten.
A panther that killed more than two hundred people in the Seoni hills. A tiger on the Hyderabad road that hunted the runners who carried the post. A panther that climbed machans twenty-four feet high and tore through the roofs of houses.
Man-Eaters brings back twenty-four true accounts from 1850 to 1900, retold from the records of the forest officers, district officers and hunters who were there, with a map for every story and period illustrations.