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    Great sporting lives

    Jul 14, 2021 2 minutes

    There are few things more satisfying than achieving a lifetime’s ambition — I did that in 2016 when I visited the hill country of northern India described so evocatively in the books of Jim Corbett.

    Born in 1875 in the town of Nainital in the foothills of the Himalayas, Corbett was the eighth child of the town postmaster. His childhood was spent

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