The Man-eaters of Tsavo
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The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 and a monochrome, British film of the 1950s.
The book describes attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo 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.
A film based on the book was made in 1996 and called 'The Ghost and the Darkness' where Val Kilmer played the daring engineer who hunts down the terrors of Tsavo.
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- The Man Eaters of Tsavo (Text)
- The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures, available at Project Gutenberg.
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