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Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon Ghond The Hunter
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon Ghond The Hunter written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Take flight with Gay-Neck, the passenger pigeon with a shimmery throat, his kind young master and Ghond, the wildlife expert, on their adventures in a village, across the Himalayas and to a battlefield in France. In this heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking tale, soar through Gay-Neck’s encounters with hawks and eagles, his quests with the swifts and a monk, and finally his heroic service as a bearer of messages filled with love and courage during the First World War. A prequel to Gay-Neck’s internationally renowned story, Ghond the Hunter focuses on the first fifteen years in the life of Gay-Neck’s trainer, Ghond. The young boy’s initiation into forest life, his understanding of dangerous animals, his run-ins with eagles, snakes and tigers, and his experiences with his pet panther make for this riveting tale of a master hunter. This special edition brings together two classic stories – Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon and Ghond the Hunter – by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the only Indian to have won the John Newbery Medal. Describing animal life with nail-biting realism, Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s stories take you to a place where the feral meets the tame, man meets nature, and all that matters is the law of the jungle!
Gay Neck
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-01-09
Gay Neck written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-09 with categories.
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1928 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1928. It deals with the life of Gay-Neck, a prized Indian pigeon. Mukerji wrote that "the message implicit in the book is that man and winged animals are brothers." He stated that much of the book is based on his boyhood experiences with a flock of forty pigeons and their leader, as the boy in the book is Mukerji himself. He did have to draw from the experiences of others for some parts of the book, such as those who trained messenger pigeons in the war. The book offers an insight into the life of a boy of high caste during the early 1900s and also into the training of pigeons. Several chapters are told from Gay-Neck's perspective, with the pigeon speaking in first person. Elizabeth Seeger writes in a biographical note about Mukerji that, "Gay-Neck was written in Brittany, where every afternoon he read to the children gathered about him on the beach the chapter he had written in the morning." In an article in the children's literature journal The Lion and the Unicorn, Meena G. Khorana calls the novel one of the few children's novels from Western or Indian authors to explore the Himalayas in a meaningful way (rather than simply using them as a setting), and notes the way Mukerji recalls their "grandeur and spiritual power". Gay-Neck, or Chitra-Griva, is born to a young owner in India. Gay-Neck's parents teach him how to fly, but he soon loses his father in a storm and his mother to a hawk. His master and Ghond the hunter take him out into the wilderness, but he becomes so scared by the hawks that he flees and ends up in a lamasery where the Buddhist monks are able to cure him of his fear. When his young master returns home he finds Gay-Neck waiting for him. But Gay-Neck decides to go on other long journeys, much to the boy's consternation. Then, during World War I, Gay-Neck and Ghond end up journeying to Europe where Gay-Neck serves as a messenger pigeon. He is chased by German machine-eagles (planes) and is severely traumatized when one of his fellow messenger pigeons is shot down. Gay-Neck and Ghond barely survive, and Gay-Neck is unable to fly. Ghond, Gay-Neck, and his master return to the lamasery near Singalila, where Ghond and Gay-Neck need to be cleansed of the hate and fear of the war. After that, Ghond succeeds in hunting down a buffalo that killed a villager, but feels remorse for having to kill the buffalo. Gay-Neck disappears once more, but when the other two return home, they find, to their joy, that Gay-Neck had already flown there ahead of them. (wikipedia.org)
From Gay Neck
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-18
From Gay Neck written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Fiction categories.
A delectable offering of the best stories written by master storytellers, including Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Satyajit Ray, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth, to name a few. Each story represents the richness and range of contemporary writing for children, and is beautifully illustrated to make this truly a collector's item.
Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon written by Dhan Gopal Mukherjee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with categories.
Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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Gay Neck
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Author : Dhan Gobal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Gay Neck written by Dhan Gobal Mukerji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with India categories.
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Gayneck The Story Of A Pigeon
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Gayneck The Story Of A Pigeon written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with categories.
Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Gay-Neck, The Story of a Pigeon" by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Kari The Elephant Hari The Jungle Lad
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Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Kari The Elephant Hari The Jungle Lad written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Kari, the loyal elephant, Kopee, the monkey known for making bad decisions, and their nine-year-old master head right into the middle of the jungle on an adventurous journey. Vivid episodes of encounters with a venomous snake, a herd of untamed elephants and forest fires, make Kari the Elephant an unusual tale of three friends growing up together. The endearing elephant reappears in Hari the Jungle Lad, which traces a young boy’s life after a flood washes away his home, leaving him to survive in the jungle. His thrill-a-minute life in the forest, complete with face-offs with deadly carnivores and friendly monkeys, and finally his search for the marked elephant who proves to be a saviour, unfold in a gripping story. This special edition brings together two classic stories – Kari the Elephant and Hari the Jungle Lad – by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the only Indian to have won the John Newbery Medal. Describing animal life with nail-biting realism, Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s stories take you to a place where the feral meets the tame, man meets nature, and all that matters is the law of the jungle!
Dust Off The Gold Medal
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Author : Sara L. Schwebel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-23
Dust Off The Gold Medal written by Sara L. Schwebel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-23 with Literary Collections categories.
The oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American Library Association to the children’s book it deems "most distinguished." Medal books enjoy an outsized influence on American children’s literature, figuring perennially on publishers’ lists, on library and bookstore shelves, and in school curricula. As such, they offer a compelling window into the history of US children’s literature and publishing, as well as into changing societal attitudes about which books are "best" for America’s schoolchildren. Yet literary scholars have disproportionately ignored the Medal winners in their research. This volume provides a critically- and historically-grounded scholarly analysis of representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s through the 2010s, interrogating the disjunction between the books’ omnipresence and influence, on the one hand, and the critical silence surrounding them, on the other. Dust Off the Gold Medal makes a case for closing these scholarly gaps by revealing neglected texts’ insights into the politics of children’s literature prizing and by demonstrating how neglected titles illuminate critical debates currently central to the field of children’s literature. In particular, the essays shed light on the hidden elements of diversity apparent in the neglected Newbery canon while illustrating how the books respond—sometimes in quite subtle ways—to contemporaneous concerns around race, class, gender, disability, nationalism, and globalism.