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'Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills. Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits me - a deep purple whistling thrush. She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.'
This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmony-with the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby. In these pages, we watch a wild plum blossom and the moon come up between...
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Over sixty-years, for numerous readers-of all ages; in big cities, small towns and little hamlets-Ruskin Bond has, been the best kind of companion. He has entertained, charmed and occasionally spooked us with his books and stories, and opened our eyes to the beauty of the everyday and the natural world. He has made us smile, when our spirits are low, and steadied us when we've stumbled.
Now, in this brilliantly readable autobiography, his book of...
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• What is the first rule of love, and what the last?
• How can love or friendship be good if it must end?
• Is a book as good a companion as a person?
• Is it sensible to love at all?
India's most beloved writer collects his own observations and those by some of his favourite authors and artists in this brilliant anthology on love, fellowship and togetherness. This is a book to gift yourself and every companion who has ever walked with you....
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• Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not.
• Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you.
• How a bird can fill you with joy and how a stranger's smile can soothe you.
• Why happiness may not even be the word for what we really need.
India's beloved sage and writer brings together his own pithy observations and those by artists and thinkers he admires in this beautiful...
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• Why you must pause, look up and out of the window.
• Why a geranium flowering on the windowsill and wind soughing in the pines is serenity
• How rain drumming on the roof can still the mind as effectively as a night of meditation
• How to recognize serenity once you have achieved it
This gorgeous pocketbook collects some of Ruskin Bond's wisest observations-as well as those of the thinkers he most admires-on a life of calm and how to...
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The finest non-fiction by Ruskin Bond, a singular writer who has inspired and comforted three generations of readers, collected in a single volume.
A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches by Ruskin Bond, the masterly and compassionate chronicler of the small details and lambent moments that capture the essence of a meaningful life. By turns...
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'There is nothing to keep me here,
Only these mountains of silence
And the gentle reserve of shepherds and woodmen
Who know me as one who
Walks among trees.'
One of India's finest and most popular writers, Ruskin Bond is, loved as much for the lyricism of his verses as for his classic stories. Tender and unsparing, understated but powerful, his poems reveal a deep connection with nature and appreciation for a surprising range of human emotions. This...
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Since, he was a young boy, Ruskin Bond has made friends easily. And some of the most rewarding and lasting friendships he has known have been with animals, birds and plants, big and small; outgoing and shy. This collection focuses on these companions and brings together his finest essays and stories, both classic and new. There are leopards and tigers, wise old forest oaks and geraniums on sunny balconies, a talking parrot and a tomcat called Suzie,...
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