No Beast So Fierce

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Champawat Tiger ate over 400 people in Nepal in India before being killed by British hunter Jim Corbett. No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History (William Morrow) contains researched descriptions of the tiger’s carnage, with digressions on the political state of India at the time and how poor conservation practices could have contributed to the tiger’s murderous ways.