The Man-eaters of Tsavo
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| Author | John Henry Patterson |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Co., Limited |
| Publication date | 1907 |
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The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907. It was later adapted twice to the movies: a monochrome, British film of the 1950s, and a 1996 color version called The Ghost and the Darkness, where Val Kilmer played the daring engineer who hunts down the lions of Tsavo.
The book describes attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo, Kenya in 1898 and how the lions were eventually killed by Patterson. It was remarkable as nearly 140 people were killed by the maneaters in less than a year before Patterson managed to kill them (although this number is contested[1]).
[edit] References
- ^ Gnoske, Thomas and Julian Kerbis Peterhans (2003). "Field Museum uncovers evidence behind man-eating; revises legend of its infamous man-eating lions". Journal of East African Natural History.
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Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- The Man Eaters of Tsavo (Text)
- The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures, available at Project Gutenberg.
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