'Jungle Adventures; From the Forests of India', as the name suggests, is an interesting book of short stories based on true jungle adventures in Indian forests. The Sunderbans National Park in India is home to the majestic Royal Bengal tiger and the high altitude Himalayan conifer forests like Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary are the favourite hunting grounds of the ferocious snow leopards. Before independence, tiger hunting was a popular sport among the British colonizers as well as the royal Indian maharajahs. Shortly after independence, the Indian government lawfully prohibited the ruthless killing of wild animals and hunting became a serious and punishable offence.Adventure in the jungle is the main theme, though there are elements of love, humour and humanity to enhance the colour of the stories. The stories will interest readers of all ages.
There was once a little European baby boy called Bab-ba, he had bright blue eyes and golden curls, and he had an Indian Ayah for his nurse. She had been with Bab-ba ever since he was baby in long robes, and she was very fond of him. Her name was Jeejee-walla, but the everyone called her Ayah. Bab-ba’s Father was a British Officer in India, and they lived in a beautiful white house on the Simla Hills in Northern India. The house had a big verandah running all around it. Round about the verandah was a garden, and outside the garden the jungle stretched for miles and miles, and in the jungle were all sorts of beasts and birds, including Hoodoo the snake who was always up to something. One day Hoodoo happened to visit Bab-ba’s garden and happened to spy Bab-Ba playing with Ayah, Mioux-Mioux the cat and Woof-Woof the dog. Hoodoo lay in the sun and watched and hatched an evil plan……… What was the plan you ask? Well you’ll have to download and read this book to find out for yourself! ---------------------- George Edward Farrow born in Ipswich in England, was a noted British children's book author of whose life little is known. During his literary career Farrow wrote more than thirty books for children. Though he wrote adventure tales and poetry, Farrow was best known for his nonsense books written in the tradition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, especially his Wallypug series ================ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Bab-ba, accident, angry, Ark, asleep, Ayah, Bab-ba, baby, Bear, beasts, beautiful, belong, birds, Bluf, British, crawl, Elephant, European, Father, flowers, forest, funny, Goodbye, Haste, hissing, hole, Hoodo the snake, India, Jeejee-walla, kiss, love, malicious, Mioux-Mioux, Mongoose, naughty, Noah, Officer, wooff-Wooff, woof-Woof, Poon-dah, Prowl the Wolf, rabbit, rainbow, Simla, Snake, sly, tail, Tig the Tiger, Tiv, rikki tikki tavi, trumpet, verandah, Wolf
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Perhaps it is not possible to experience all the mysterious sounds, the unfamiliar smells, and the spectacular sights of a tropical rainforest without ever visiting one. But this exhilarating and honest book comes wondrously close to taking the reader on such a journey. Bruce M. Beehler, a widely traveled expert on birds and tropical ecology, recounts fascinating details from twelve field trips he has taken to the tropics over the past three decades. As a researcher, he brings to life the exotic rainforests and the people who inhabit them; as a conservationist, he makes a plea for better ways of managing rainforestsa resource that the world cannot do without. Drawing on his experiences in Papua New Guinea, India, Madagascar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Panama, and the Ivory Coast, Beehler describes the surprisesboth pleasant and unpleasantof doing science and conservation in the field. He explains the role that rainforests play in the lives of indigenous peoples and the crucial importance of understanding local cultures, customs, and politics. The author concludes with simple but tough solutions for maintaining rainforest health, expressing fervent hope that his great-grandchildren and others may one day also hear the rainforest whisper its secrets.
