Product Description

This is Jim Corbett's last book and the only one not set in India. It tells of Princess Elizabeth's visit to Tree Tops in Kenya, during which she learned George VI had died and that she was now Queen. Although there are the characteristically vivid descriptions of the area's wildlife, the book is tinged with a sense of foreboding and regret at losing his Kumaon home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1317155 in Books
• Published on: 1991-10-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 43 pages

Customer Reviews

TREE TOPS
This book was published in September 1955, has 30 pages, 26 beautiful B/W line drawings and no map. Jim Corbett was born in 1875 and for 20 years was official in Indian Railways. After 2 world wars, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. After Indian independence in 1947, he went to Kenya and settled at Nyeri until his death in april 1955, at the age of 80.
Corbett was unmarried, fought leopard at the age of 51 and tigers at the age of 63. TREE TOPS is a story of the visit made by Her Magesty the Queen in 1952, to Kenya. Tree Tops was built in a Giant Ficus tree, 30 ft above ground. Corbett was invited by HRH to meet her. After climbing the tree tops, the Princess Elizabeth took pictures of the elephants.
After dinner, the party went on the balcony again in the pitch darkness outside. Corbett goes and sits on the ledder. In the morning, the Princess took pictures of the rhino on the salt-lick. She was the only member of the royal family to sleep in the tree. The royal party spent from 2 pm on 5.2.1952 to 10 am on 6.2.1952, on the tree tops. THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH CLIMBED INTO THE TREE AS A PRINCESS AND CLIMBED DOWN AS A QUEEN.
Read his other books now in 2 large volumes:-
(1) Jim Corbett Omnibus, 1991 ,606 pages, OUP.
(2) Second Jim Corbett Omnibus, 1992, 426 pages, OUP.
DON'T HAVE NIGHTMARES. Having born in Kenya, I reccomend them.
Read and ENJOY.