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These tales revolve around the most challenging and fantastic experiences that could happen to man: arduous journeys, shipwreck, torture, hidden treasure, bandits and mutineers, and adventures in dark jungles.  One of Ruskin Bond’s most exciting anthologies, these authentic stories reveal the true indomitably of the human spirit. About the Author One of India’s finest and most popular storytellers, 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, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Academy Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, and A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.