The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - Softcover

The Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 about a pair of lions that he killed in Kenya, known as the Tsavo man-eaters. 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 before Patterson managed to kill them.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson was in East Africa to oversee the building of a railway bridge. Among the many obstacles he and his crew encountered were the two famous man-eating lions of Tsavo. In his 1907 book, Patterson recounts how he hunted and killed the two lions, along with many other tales of adventure concerning local tribes, East African wildlife, and hunting expeditions.