The Man-Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson

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The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 about a pair of lions that he killed in Kenya, known as the Tsavo maneaters.
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 man eaters in less than a year.

It is the firsthand account of the infamous Tsavo lions. These lions– who for nearly a year terrorized East Africa– succeeded in bringing the construction of a railway line to a complete halt, and have been credited with the deaths of some one hundred people. Written by the legendary officer who shot these lions and risked death several times in the attempt, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is not only the story of this breathtaking hunt, but of Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson’s other adventures in the African bush.

“I think that the incident of the Kenya man-eating lions…is the most remarkable account of which we have any record.”–Theodore Roosevelt.