Once You Have Lived With Mountains

Once You Have Lived With Mountains Synopsis

"Walking home at midnight inandour can be quite eventful I have smelled aeopard 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 haveistened to the calls of nightjars, owls and other birds whoive 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 hasived in the Himalayas and this book is a delightful collection of his reminiscences and anecdotes about hisife there. Filled with vibrant and beautiful descriptions of places, this one is for every mountain and natureover.