A Mussoorie Mystery (Hb)

Ruskin Bond . Rupa Publications India . Pidgin English

�Remember the old road,The steep stony pathThat took us up from Rajpur,Toiling and sweatingAnd grumbling at the climb,But enjoying it all the same..�From �Remember the Old Road� by Ruskin BondSometimes, a journey can be of discovery. And, in this compilation, Ruskin Bond has discovered hair-raising stories of other people�s journeys, taken many many years ago. Bond describes the old track from Rajpur to Mussorie, surrounded by Oak trees and colonial buildings in �The Kipling Road�. Braving blizzards and bandits, M. Huc takes a momentous journey to Ladakh in �Journey to the Forbidden City�, while Osa Johnson, the only woman adventurer in the book, gives her awe-inspiring account of cannibals in �A Woman Among Cannibals�. Be it travelling for shikar or search for new lands or just for survival, this book is packed with action!

Categories: Fiction

About the Author

Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award), Angry River, The Blue Umbrella, Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, A Little Night Music, Tigers for Dinner, Tales of Fosterganj, and A Gathering of Friends. Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

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