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The Jim Corbett National Park is  approximately 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Nainital   
The Jim Corbett National Park is  approximately 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Nainital   
"My father worked for a company that would send him to that region every year for 3 months, mostly in Haldwani and Ramnager area not far from the Jim Corbett National Park. I remember that it was so remote it took us days and days to arrive, sometimes over swollen rivers which we had to ford on horseback. When weather and roads permitted we drove to nearly all the small areas, towns and villages right up to the boarder of Nepal" <ref>Soady, Penni [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-03/1332106098 "Almora and the Kumeon"] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'', 19 March 2012. Retrieved  14 March 2015</ref>


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**[http://www.jimcorbettnationalpark.com/corbett_coljim.asp Colonel Jim Corbett]
**[http://www.jimcorbettnationalpark.com/corbett_coljim.asp Colonel Jim Corbett]
*Sydney Morning Herald travel article [http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/great-outdoors/head-for-heights-20120314-1v25p.html "Head for heights"] dated 17 March 2012 is about the mountain scenery near Almora
*Sydney Morning Herald travel article [http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/great-outdoors/head-for-heights-20120314-1v25p.html "Head for heights"] dated 17 March 2012 is about the mountain scenery near Almora
*The author of this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-03/1332106098 post] has happy memories of her young days in the forests of Kumaon near the Jim Corbett National Park.


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
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*[http://archive.org/stream/TheTempleTigerAndMoreMan-eatersOfKumaon1954#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon''] by Jim Corbett originally published 1954 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/TheTempleTigerAndMoreMan-eatersOfKumaon1954#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon''] by Jim Corbett originally published 1954 Archive.org
*''The Himalayan Gazetteer  or the Himalayan Districts of the North Western Province of India'' by Edwin T Atkinson in 3 Volumes (6 Parts) originally published 1882, 1884, 1886 is  available, in a reprint edition, to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Covers the regions of Kumaon and Garhwal. Volume 1, part 1 Contents computer page 12; Volume 1, part 2 Contents cp 12, Index cp 536; Volume 2, part 1 Contents cp18; Volume 2, part 2 Contents cp 16 Index cp 458, includes History of the British in the area; Volume 3, part 1 Contents cp 10 Place names A-J; Volume 3, part 2 Contents cp 8 Place names K-Z.
*''The Himalayan Gazetteer  or the Himalayan Districts of the North Western Province of India'' by Edwin T Atkinson in 3 Volumes (6 Parts) originally published 1882, 1884, 1886 is  available, in a reprint edition, to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Covers the regions of Kumaon and Garhwal. Volume 1, part 1 Contents computer page 12; Volume 1, part 2 Contents cp 12, Index cp 536; Volume 2, part 1 Contents cp18; Volume 2, part 2 Contents cp 16 Index cp 458, includes History of the British in the area; Volume 3, part 1 Contents cp 10 Place names A-J; Volume 3, part 2 Contents cp 8 Place names K-Z.
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Revision as of 09:28, 14 March 2015

Important towns of Kumaon include Nainital, Almora, and Ranikhet.

The Jim Corbett National Park is approximately 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Nainital

"My father worked for a company that would send him to that region every year for 3 months, mostly in Haldwani and Ramnager area not far from the Jim Corbett National Park. I remember that it was so remote it took us days and days to arrive, sometimes over swollen rivers which we had to ford on horseback. When weather and roads permitted we drove to nearly all the small areas, towns and villages right up to the boarder of Nepal" [1]

Spelling variants

Kumaon, Kumaun, Kumaoon

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. Soady, Penni "Almora and the Kumeon" Rootsweb India Mailing List, 19 March 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2015