The Secret Sanctuary
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780143333982
- Imprint : Puffin Books
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
Welcome to the secret sanctuary A magical jungle where laughing thrushes brush against your cheek and barking deer stop ...
Welcome to the secret sanctuary
A magical jungle where laughing thrushes brush against your cheek and barking deer stop to be petted; an enchanting wilderness where you can tug a monkey’s tail or share a den with a mountain bear.
Or go in search of a rare mountain quail.
Or listen to a concert at dawn.
Or walk through a spider’s web as if it wasn’t there.
Or follow a blood trail through the jungle.
This idyllic world is a natural paradise. There is only one catch. Once you enter, you may never be able to go back.
Stephen Alter is the author of twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. He was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhandand much of his writing focuses on the Himalayan region, where he continues to live and work. His honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright award. His recent memoir, Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime, received the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan Literature in 2015. His most recent work of fiction, In The Jungles of the Night: A Novel About Jim Corbett, was shortlisted for the DSC South Asian Literature Award in 2017. He was writer-in-residence at MIT for ten years, before which he directed the writing programme at the American University in Cairo. He is founding director of the Mussoorie Mountain Festival.
