Do you know the Mountain of the Moon? Chander Pahad? The dangers that lurk there, the mystery that shrouds it, the places there you cannot run away from, nor hide in. Find for yourself the magic and mystery of Africa created by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. For you in English by Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri. With illustrations by Suddhasattwa Basu. A must read for all those who dare to dare, dare to dream. It may be relevant to mention here that the Richtersveldt Mountain described in this novel is a well-known mountain system of Central Africa and the myths of Dingonek (the Rhodesian Monster) and Bunip are prevalent in the jungles of Zululand even today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhaya
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhaya was born in 1894 and attended a local village school. In 1914 he was admitted to Ripon College, Calcutta, from where he graduated in 1918. He took up teaching as his profession and continued as a teacher for the greater part of his life. He died in 1914. His first publication was a short story which appeared in a Calcutta journal in 1922. From then on he wrote regularly. He is credited altogether with fifty published works, seventeen of which are novels and twenty collections of short stories. His greatest work, however, and that which brought him fame, is Pather Panchali. Aparajito is the sequel to that famous novel.
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