THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI: AND OTHER ADVENTURES OF THE INDIAN JUNGLE. By Kenneth Anderson.

(1959) 1977 Indian paperback edition. Small 8vo (110 x 180mm). Pp247+4pp ads. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Rebound in half bonded leather.

"...In this book the concentration is upon panthers rather than tigers, a very different animal in his habits and quite different to deal with. But there are tigers as well, snakes and a great bull bison that survived a titanic battle with a tiger. These are no mere hunter's stories: thrills there are, but difficulties too, failures and disappointments. But the author, who has spent a lifetime in trying to understand the minds of jungle creatures, takes us into his confidence and explains the methods by which he has been able to rid the remoter [areas] of India of some of their most terrible enemies. In doing so he builds up a vivid picture of the forest scene, which no reader is likely to forget". Chapters include: A panther's way; The man-eating panther of the Yellagiri Hills; Old Munuswamy and the Panther of Magadi; The Black Panther of Sivanipalli; Snakes and other jungle creatures; The killer from Hyderabad; The Big Bull Bison of Gedesal; The maned tiger of chordi; The man-eater of Pegepalyam.