Lone Fox Dancing

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 CompanionHe 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 WorldHe 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 Books?one Of India?s Greatest Writers Shows Us The Roots Of Everything He Has WrittenHe Begins With ADream And AGentle Haunting, Before Taking Us To An Idyllic Childhood In Jamnagar By The Arabian Sea?where He Composed His First Poem?and New Delhi In The Early s?where He Found Material For His First Short StoryIt Was ABrief Period Of Happiness That Ended With His Parents? Separation And The Untimely Death Of His Beloved FatherASearch For Companionship And Security, Undercut By AFierce Independence And ATendency For Risktaking, Would Inform Every Choice He Made For The Rest Of His Life.with Effortless Intimacy And Candour, Bond Recalls His Boarding School Days In Shimla And Winter Holidays In Dehradun, When He Tried To Come To Terms With ASense Of Abandonment, Made Friends, Discovered Great Books And Found His True CallingDetermined To Be AWriter, He Spent Four Difficult Years In England, From To , And He Writes Poignantly Of His Loneliness There, Even As He Kept His Promise To Himself And Produced ABook?the Classic Novel Of Adolescence, The Room On The RoofIt Was Born Of His Longing For ?the Atmosphere That Was India??the Home He Would Return To Even Before The Novel Was Published, Taking AGamble That Would Prove To Be The Best Decision He Made.in The Final, Glorious Section Of The Autobiography, He Writes About Losing His Restlessness And Settling Down In The Hills Of Mussoorie, Surrounded By Generous Trees, Mist And Sunshine, Birdsong, Elusive Big Cats, New Friends And Eccentrics?and AFamily That Grew Around Him And Made Him Its Own.full Of Anecdote, Warmth And Gentle Wit, Often Deeply Moving And Always With AMagnificent Sense Of Time And Place?and Containing Over Fifty Photographs, Some Of Them Never Seen Before?lone Fox Dancing Is ABook Of Understated, Enduring Magic, Like Ruskin Bond Himself.
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