The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures: The Original Classics - Illustrated

by John Henry Patterson

Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya. It is most widely known for recounting the story of a pair of lions that he killed, known as the Tsavo maneaters.

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 17, 2016

About the author

Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, DSO, known as J.H. Patterson, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author and Zionist, best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907), which details his experiences while building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya in 1898-99.

Although he was himself a Protestant, he became a major figure in Zionism as the commander of both the Zion Mule Corps and of the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (aka Jewish Legion of the British Army) in World War One. He ultimately achieved the rank of Lt. Colonel, and retired from the British Army in 1920. Patterson was a strong supporter of the establishment of a separate Jewish state in the Middle East, which was realized with the statehood of Israel on May 14, 1948, less than a year after his death.

Patterson died at the age of eighty. He was living in California at the time.

Reviews

[Tracy Gilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Patterson tells the tale of killing two men eating lions. He also discusses other adventures he had hunting in Africa. Well written, the hunting adventures get to be a bit much though.

[Troy Stirman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is EXCELLENT. The audio version is rather terrible. The narrator conveys the incredibly rich, detailed and adrenaline-packed stories with all the animation of an elderly Dermatologist examining the common skin mole.