Synopses & Reviews
Jayanta Mahapatra, one of India's best poets writing in English, has won numerous poetry prizes within India and abroad. In this collection, his tenth, Mahapatra gathers together his best work from earlier collections, choosing the poems representative of his life's work thus far.
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A search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered it "the most amazing book ever written." This edition contains annotation.
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An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.