About the Book: For the love of Mountaions
'The mountain snows melted and the swollen stream came rushing down the valley
and past the lonely old house. The garden was full of little green shoots, the
grass was fresh and sweet, and the flame-tree was bursting into colour. Ruskin
Bond has spent a lifetime listening to the Himalayas, and the mountains, it
turns out, have quite a lot to say. For the Love of Mountains is his love letter
to the foothills he calls home. These are not the dramatic,
ice-axe-and-frostbite kind of mountains, but the kind where a cherry tree blooms
outside your window