STRANGE ADVENTURES

STRANGE ADVENTURES
Author: Dr Asim K Dasgupta
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2024-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

STRANGE ADVENTURES: In this children’s book Dr Asim K Dasgupta takes young readers on a series of short stories from around the world, mainly animal and ghost stories. In each story, the characters venture from more familiar places and situations into world of unexpected wonder, sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, sometimes eerie, but always a challenge to our imagination. Would you like to chat with a green turtle on a beach of black sand, or be invited to a Jackal’s wedding? In Dr Dasgupta’s world it might happen. When night comes, you better beware! Perhaps you are a doctor on night duty and there’s a power cut. It might be just a nuisance, but what if the lift goes on working even when the power has gone? And who is the mysterious lady who is beckoning to you so urgently? Or what if you’re a boarding -school boy and you need to take a river ferry to get to your home village? You may have done the trip a hundred times, but is it really safe to embark in a thunderstorm? And where is the usual ferryman, and why does the new one not utter a word? Or again, have you ever wondered if there is any truth in dreams? Can a dead loved one reach out to you in a dream that seems more real than the everyday world? What happens if you keep a squirrel as a pet? Sometimes, the wonderful thing may be just outside, in your back garden. You just never know what may happen, or when. But there is one thing that will surely happen to all of us, if we get what most people want: a long life. Dr Dasgupta’s story ‘Last quarter’ is a sensitive and compassionate exploration of old age: not only its sorrows, but also the comfort to be drawn from human companionship.

Selkirk's Island

Selkirk's Island
Author: Diana Souhami
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 178087877X

When Alexander Selkirk was abandoned by his shipmates on the remote island of Juan Fernandez in 1704 he could not have know that he wouldn't see another human soul for four long years, could not have anticipated the lonely and fierce existence to which he had been condemned, nor could he have ever guessed that his plight - recreated in the form of Robinson Crusoe - would be immortalised by Daniel Defoe. In this startlingly original book, award-winning author Diana Souhami brings new life to this story, evoking the abandoned sailor's struggle with solitude, God and the savage new home into which he had been so brutally thrust.

Our Castle by the Sea

Our Castle by the Sea
Author: Lucy Strange
Publisher: Chicken House
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1911490524

England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, eleven-year old Pet's world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart ...

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
Author: Harry Collingwood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734027217

Reproduction of the original: The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood

The Granta

The Granta
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1928
Genre: Cambridge (England)
ISBN: