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Glad I could be of some help. Hope you find your video.

Best Wishes,
Brian.

i believe this may be it....same director, same length.....not alot of detail on the Amazon site though....

http://www.amazon.com/National-Geog...mp;ie=UTF8&qid=1304998265&sr=1-8

That's the one.

Brian.

couldn't find it the UK so just ordered it via Rattler's link From Amazon.
Thanks guys. Been trying to find this for a good while.

Ditto about Anderson...Personally, I like Andersons books because I feel he belongs to this era, where as I find Corbett's writings have an almost "Victorian" style to them, although in actual time frame, the two gentlemen overlapped....Also, thats not to say I dislike Corbett's books..

With regards The Ghost and the Darkness, I'm pretty certain the film does contain the Railway car trap scene...

I'm pretty certain I have read other account of the Lions of Tsavo written by the chief engineer for the rail way project as a whole...Although he doesn't do a hatchet job as such on Patterson, the account still left me with the impression Patterson narrated the story from a very narrow and personal perspective.

Also in this second account, there was another character who turned up, who I think e was something like the Superindent of the Railway Police, but otherwise he sounded very much like the character Remington was based on..

If I can recall where I read it, I will post the information..

Edited to add, I think the other account I read was by R O Preston..The link here mentions him in passing, but the account I originally read gave far more detail and lead me to speculate that the "Ghost and the Darkness" drew heavily on the incidents as described by Preston and used them to flesh out and support Patterson's account.

Hi Pete,
Corbert was born in 1875 so his eduction would account for his Victorian style of wriiting, where Anderson was born in 1910.I like both and have all the books by both. All of which I bought in India.

The railway car trap was in the film and it was very close to how it was described in the book.
I was talking about another rail car which wasn't a trap , but was been used as a bunk house for some visiting hunters. Which is chapter 25 of the book.

I haven't read Prestons account of what happened but thanks for posting the link.
Another book called "Lion in the evening" by Alan Scholerfield is along the same lines as Tsavo but is a fictional account set in 1916. Its not as good as Tsavo but Ok to read.

My mistake..Now that you mention it, I think the railcar/bunkhouse incident is also mentioned in Preston's account and it was the visiting Superintendent of Police who was dragged out and killed. Or it may have been another similar incident; it not unreasonable to think that railway cars might have commonly been used as bunk accomadation given the dangers in the area..

With regards to Anderson, several years ago there was a Brit who posted on AR who knew the guy. In fact, he offered me a trigers head trophy that was one of Andersons, and I regret never taking him up on the kind offer.

He did say that Anderson had used a degree of poetic license writting his books, although the basics were fundamentally correct.

What always struck me as odd about Anderson is that he never mentioned Corbett in any of his books, at least not that I can recall anyway.

When I first read Andersons books, I was suprised by that too.

It was a shame you never took the Tigers head. If it was Andersons it would most certanly been mounted by Van Ingen's of Mysore. The Van Ingen's and Anderson knew each other.
When I first fished on the river Cauvery for Mahseer, they had a large stuffed head of a Mahseer which was one of the largest ever caught hanging on the wall of the Fisheries Superintendants office . It was caught , suffed and mounted by one of the Van Ingen brothers. I chatted to the fisheries superintendent about this and also mentioned about hunting and also Anderson. He said the younger brother Joubert(in his mid 90's) had been fishing the week before and caught a 12 lb Mahseer. He was going to arrange for us to go over to Mysore to meet him , but sadly it never came to anything.
Van Ingen taxidermery comes up for sale now and then but fetches silly money by collectors.

Funny this thread revived at this time. Any of you all know the connection between Patterson and the Netanyahu family in Israel? Was reading a passage from a book on Patterson just the other day and apparently Patterson was the godfather of the father(I think, maybe grandfather)of Benjamin Netanyahu. As Patterson was very involved in Palestine during and after the Great War. Really pushed for a Jewish state there. I found it very interesting.

Kaywoodie