Once You Have Lived With Mountains

‘Walking home at midnight in Landour can be quite eventful… I have smelled a leopard without seeing it. I have seen jackals on the prowl. I have watched foxes dance in the moonlight. I have seen flying squirrels flit from one treetop to another. I have listened to the calls of nightjars owls and other birds who live by night.’The smell of pines the sound of birds the singing of hill people the sound of a river flowing through a valley—these are some of the pleasant things that greet you once you are in the mountains. For decades Ruskin Bond has lived in the Himalayas and this book is a delightful collection of his reminiscences and anecdotes about his life there. Filled with vibrant and beautiful descriptions of places this one is for every mountain and nature lover.