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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures - Lions Against a Railway in East Africa - cover

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures - Lions Against a Railway in East Africa

J. H. Patterson

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Two lions stopped the building of the Uganda railway in 1898 by eating the workmen - by some counts a hundred and thirty-five of them - until the engineer in charge sat up nights and shot them. Patterson wrote it himself; the skins are in the Field Museum in Chicago and the story has been filmed more than once.
Available since: 09/16/2026.
Print length: 199 pages.

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