The Ruskin Bond Omnibus - Volume III by Ruskin Bond


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ProductID: 15659 - Paperback - 545 Pages (Year: 2005)
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Here’s a treat for Ruskin bond fans-Ruskin bond Omnibus Vol III, This superb volume contains many of Ruskin Bond’s favourite stories from his archives. The stories in this volume are fascinating accounts by numerous writers about their real life encounters. This volume comprises three different anthologies, each with a unique them of its own.

In Great Animal Stories the writers recount their encounters of man’s relationship with the creatures in the wilderness. The hunter turns out to be the hunted at times. But occasionally there are some interesting friendly exchange too.

Travellers’ Tales are true stories of journeys into the unknown filled with travails often resulting in a struggle for survival. The survivors of these incredible journeys recount a plane crash in a desert, a cannibal conclave, a South American uprising, encounters with pirates and many other adventures.

Shikar Stories are true accounts of adventures in the jungles of India. The writers encounter man-eating tigers, musth elephants and other predators in a land filled with wildlife.

Table of Contents

GREAT ANIMAL STORIES

INTRODUCTION

The Coming of the Tiger
Man-Eater
The Pale One
A Philosopher Stag
The Tiger-Charm
Travels with a Bear Cub
Tippitty, A flying Squirrel
The man-eater of Mundali
Garm-A Hostage
Sandy Beresford’s Tigerhunt
A Terrible Bedfellow
Chased By Bees
In the Jaws of the Alligator
The Tiger in the Tunnel
The Leopard
The Regimental Myna
The Moose And Rusty Jones
Mustela of the Lone Hand
A Warrior from Bhut

TRAVELLERS’ TALES

INTRODUCTION

A Crash in the Mountains
Escape from Death Valley
Cannibal Gymnastics
An Artist in Bombay and Hyderabad, 1896
At the Grave of John Mildenhall in Agra
>From Mussoorie to Darjeeling
Marooned on a Desert Island
Adventures of a Super-Tramp
An Exotic Figure in Moscow
Reunion in Paris
Beast Tales from Burma
Grandpa fights an Ostrich
A South American Rebellion
>From A Submariner’s Notebook
By Way of Mount Hopeless
Across the Syrian Desert
Ships That Pass In The Night

SHIKAR STORIES

INTRODUCTION

The Tiger and the Terrier
A Letter from the Jungle
A Further Letter from the Jungle
The Panther and The Shephered
Indian Lions
Some Panthers
An Adventure with a Tigress
The Midnight Visitor
Hunting With a Camera
Drought in the Jungle
Shooting in the Doon
Hunters of Souls
Encounters With Big Game
On the Banks of the Narbada
The Haunts of Isabeline

About the Author

Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, RUSKIN BOND grew up in Jamnagar, Dehra Dun and Shimla. His first novel. ' Room on the Roof', written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novellas, and more than thirty books for children. He has also published two volumes of autobiography, 'Scenes from a Writer's Life', which describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-Indian, and 'The Lamp is Lit', a collection of essays and episodes from his journal.

He received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing in India, and was awarded Padma Shree in 1999.

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