Tales of the Open Road: Signed as on Road with Ruskin Bond (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780144000722)

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Tales of the Open Road: Signed as on Road with Ruskin Bond

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Tales of the Open Road: Signed as on Road with Ruskin Bond

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Format: Paperback
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I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.' Ruskin Bond's travel writing is unlike what is found in most travelogues, because he will take you to the smaller, lesser-known corners of the country, acquaint you with the least-famous locals there, and describe the flora and fauna that others would have missed. And if the place is well known, Ruskin leaves the common tourist spots to find a small alley or shop where he finds colourful characters to engage in conversation. Tales of the Open Road is a collection of Ruskin Bond's travel writing over fifty years. Here, you will encounter a tonga ride through the Shivaliks, a hidden waterfall near Rishikesh, walks along the myriad streets of Delhi (one of which used to be the richest in Asia), trips down the Grand Trunk Road, stopovers in little tea stalls in the hills around Mussoorie, and an excursion to the icy source of the Ganga at over ten thousand feet above sea level. Enriched by rare photographs that Ruskin took during his travels, Tales of the Open Road is a celebration of small-town and rural India by its most engaging chronicler.

Author: Ruskin Bond
ISBN-10: 0144000725
ISBN-13: 9780144000722
Publisher: India Penguin
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Size: 7.25h x 4.37w x 0.47d
By Ruskin Bond
By Ruskin Bond
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Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was 17, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has published a number of novellas, short story collections, books of essays and articles, poems, and children's books. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and, the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Bond was born in Kasauli and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, Delhi and Simla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955. He currently resides in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.

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