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Escape from Java and Other Tales of Danger
by
Ruskin Bond
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 escape a fearsome forest fire; listen in to Ruth's hair-raising story of escape from rioting sepoys during the uprising of 1857;
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ebook, 184 pages
Published
July 31st 2010
by Puffin Books
(first published January 1st 2010)
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Ruskin Bond's simple and lucid writing with earth touching moments at its best! I especially liked he last story!
Five stories including one extract, interesting story collection form the author.
I really couldn't get the main point of the story,but I liked the story Escape from Java.
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Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's 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 establi ...more
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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 establi ...more
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