Book review
Here are exciting tales of hair-breadth escapes and thrilling encounters in the wild - stories of man's relationship with other living creatures, furred or feathered, fierce or friendly. All the stories were written out of the writers' own experiences.

From thrilling encounters with man-eating tigers and crocodiles, to more friendly exchanges between man and beast, these stores will hold you spellbound

Table of contents
Introductions by Ruskin Bond

The Coming of the Tiger

Man-Eater

The Pale One

A Philosopher Stag

The Tiger-Charm

Travels with a Bear Cub

Tipping, A Flying Squirrel

The Man-eater of Mundali

Garm-A Hostage

Sandy Beresford’s Tigerhunt

A Terrible Bedfellow

Chased by Bees

In the Jaws of the Alligator

The Tiger in the Tunnel

The Leopard

The Regimental Myna

The Moose And Rusty Jones

Mustela of The Lone Hand

A Warrior from Bhut

About the author For over forty-five years Ruskin Bond has been writing stories, novellas, essays, poems and children’s books. He has written over 500 short stories and articles, many of which have been published by Penguin India. Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Simla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955, and has never left the country since. His first novel The Room on the Roof received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awarded to a Commonwealth writer under thirty, for ‘a work of outstanding literary merit’. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, and the Padma Shri in 1999. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.