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Written in an engaging, often lyrical style, the story in this book brings out the close relationship of humans and animals. This story focuses on the first fifteen years of the life of a boy, Ghond - his training as a hunter, the festivals, customs in which he participates and his keen observation of wildlife.
An intense, vivid story of the life of a boy in the jungle. It throbs with life, and is full of color and action. In reading it, one lives, as it were, for a time in the jungle thickly peopled by creatures of the wild, and learns their ways in rich and fascinating adventure-the thrill of tiger hunting, the tracking of the elephant, the rush of the floods, a death-struggle between a tiger and a leopard, daily life lived in the company of the wild buffalo, the ...
This book, as the name implies, tells us the story of an elephant called Kari. The story of his growth and adventures, from the time he was six months old, is told with direct sincerity. The innate intelligence and the personality of a trained elephant is beautifully brought out. The story brings the reader face to face with creatures of the wild, in a way which is not only deeply interesting but also instructive and stimulating. The author has been singularly ...
It is a heart-warming and sometimes almost heart-breaking story of the training and care of a carrier pigeon. The story tells how Gay-Neck's master, an eager, highly sensitive lad trains a domesticated Calcutta pigeon to become a carrier of messages to Indian Army in France, during the first World War.
This book beautifully describes the quest of one man to know and understand the meaning of the life of Rama Krishna Paramhamsa and is indeed an insight into the life and the legend of the great man. Written as a detailed account of the experience of a seeker of knowledge, it explains the questions that arise in the inquiring mind. This book puts forward Rama Krishna’s belief in the service to God through the service of fellow human beings less fortunate than ...
Gay-Neck is the heart-warming and sometimes almost heartbreaking story of the training and care of a carrier pigeon. Writing out of his own experience as a boy in India, Dhan Gopal Mukerji tells how Gay-Neck's master, an eager, highly-sensitive lad, sent his exceptional training and his brave heart, Gay-Neck served his new masters heroically. Here is more than just a simple story of a pigeon's training and adventuring, of Gay-Neck is a bearer of messages, and his ...