Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Gay Neck, The Story of a Pigeon & Ghond The Hunter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Take flight with Gay-Neck, the passenger pigeon with a shimmery throat, his kind young master and Ghond, the wildlife expert, on their adventures in a village, across the Himalayas and to a battlefield in France.

In this heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking tale, soar through Gay-Neck's encounters with hawks and eagles, his quests with the swifts and a monk, and finally his heroic service as a bearer of messages filled with love and courage during the First World War.

A prequel to Gay-Neck's internationally renowned story, Ghond the Hunter focuses on the first fifteen years in the life of Gay-Neck's trainer, Ghond. The young boy's initiation into forest life, his understanding of dangerous animals, his run-ins with eagles, snakes and tigers, and his experiences with his pet panther make for this riveting tale of a master hunter.

This special edition brings together two classic stories - Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon and Ghond the Hunter - by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the only Indian to have won the John Newbery Medal. Describing animal life with nail-biting realism, Dhan Gopal Mukerji's stories take you to a place where the feral meets the tame, man meets nature, and all that matters is the law of the jungle!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette India
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Altersempfehlung: ab 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789351950851
• Artikelnr.: 44861858

Autorenporträt

Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) was the only Indian- American writer to have won the John Newbery Medal in 1928 for his distinguished contribution to American Literature for Children. Born in a jungle village, Kajangal, near Calcutta, India, he went to the United States at the age of 19. Educated at the University of California and Stanford University, Mukerji was the first popular Indian writer in English. He began his most prolific period of writing when he moved to New York in the 1920s. Kari the Elephant was the first to see publication, in 1922, followed by Hari the Jungle Lad in 1924 and Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon in 1927.