{"product_id":"9781599867052","title":"The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures","description":"The story is familiar to movie fans-the horrifying tale of the 1907 book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo has been retold by Hollywood many times, most recently in the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness-but hearing it directly from the source remains a thrill.\u003cp\u003eAnglo-Irish hunter JOHN HENRY PATTERSON (1867-1947) was an officer in the British army when he was commissioned by the British East Africa Company to oversee the construction of a railway bridge in Kenya. Just after he arrived in Africa, a pair of rogue male lions-animals that do not typically attack humans-began preying up the railroad workers, killing them viciously and consuming their corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatterson, a natural storyteller, immerses us in the horror of the workers' fear and his own attempts to track the beast, which eventually would kill 140 people before Patterson took them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis real-life escapade will rivet fans of adventure fiction and nonfiction alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Filiquarian Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50094443430128,"sku":"9781599867052","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781599867052","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}