Escape from Java and other tales of danger

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 184

    Pages
  • 9780143333746

    ISBN
  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 212 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

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  • 1 FEBRUARY 2015

    Publish Date
  • 9 mm

    Spine Width

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    Join intrepid heroes and dauntless heroines in their quest for survival against earthquakes, fire, floods and bombs! Live life on the edge with five stories of danger and adventure. Flee with Romi as he rides his cycle straight into the river to get away from a fearsome forest fire; listen in to Ruth's hair-raising story of escape from rioting sepoys during the uprising of 1857; read about the author's miraculous flight from Java as Japanese planes bombard the city; witness the havoc wreaked by the deadliest earthquake ever in Rakesh's town, Shillong; and watch Sita combat a fatal flood. Written...  Read More

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    Ruskin Bond

    Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent.He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and childrens authors and a top novelist.

    He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.
    Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
    In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, by the Sahitya Akademi, Indias National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to childrens literature.
    He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

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