The Maneaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures is a book written byJohn Henry Patterson in 1907 about a pair of lions that he killed in Kenyaknown as ... » 

The Maneaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures is a book written byJohn Henry Patterson in 1907 about a pair of lions that he killed in Kenyaknown as the Tsavo maneaters. The book describes attacks by maneating lionson the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo Kenya in 1898 and how the lionswere eventually killed by Patterson. It was remarkable as nearly 140 peoplewere killed by the maneaters in less than a year before Patterson managed tokill them. «