This is an autobiography of one of the world's most famous mountaineers who has had long and intimate contact with mountains, and can understand their true magic. The author's gripping account of the ascent to Everest contains intriguing information about this massive operation. The action-packed climb to the summit is an unforgettable narrative with each torturous step recounted in vivid detail. Some of the episodes about which the author has written are depicted in rare photographs taken by him.

Read in the book the personal tragedies and political crises that stalked her throughout her life. How in spite of being a democrat she turned a despot for nineteen months; how then she shed the totalitarian mantle in a defiant reversal to the democratic norm. How she lost her next election, but rose from the ashes of defeat into rule again. Learn how this charismatic leader was always at home - be it with the international elite or with the masses - a ruler for all her faults, who sought to see India achieve greatness.

Taking a holiday from big game hunting, Anderson lovingly reminisces about his exciting days and star-lit nights spent amidst the simple folks inhabiting the fringes of dark forests. There are Byra the Poojari, who taught him jungle lore, Ranga the shikari, happy with his gun and game, Mumptyvayan the bandit, betrayed and murdered by a woman, and many others. An altogether new Anderson with human compassion to match his hunting passion.

Called upon to rid affected locality of the prowling man-eaters, Anderson the hunter rises to the occasion. Step by step he takes the reader through the adventure, explaining his modus operandi and the terrible excitement and lurking danger. Stirring tales of wild animal's cunning pitted against human wit and presence of mind told by the ace hunter and master story-teller himself.

This anthology captures the drivers that redefine the country and its people, while creating a new space of relevance in the world, making its people proud of being part of a revved up nation. Realizing Brand India–The Changing Face of Contemporary India gets into the story that involves not merely successes in the global sphere, but also the relevance of a growing, proud urban middle class that at the same time contrasts with the struggling poor.

Ace hunter and wildlife chronicler Kenneth Anderson recalls real-life jungle tales, some macabre and some incredible, of adventures in pursuit of man-eating tigers and leopards. He brings the animal and human characters alive against the background of the jungle and the excitement and danger their co-existence generates.

Walk on the wild side. Hugh Gantzer takes you into the wilderness where, sometimes animals prey on humans. And then they have to be killed. But before this happens, a strange understanding builds up between the hunter and the hunted. It is this empathy that makes these shikar stories so different.

Anderson, more famous for hunting man-eating tigers, finds in a wily panther a real challenger to his hunting acumen. There are thrills, failures, disappointments, and at long last, the elusive success. He tells the real-life adventure story set in the deep jungle, with snakes, bisons and of course tigers, with unique verve and colour which only he is capable of.