Excerpt: ‘FERAL DREAMS: Mowgli & His Mothers’ by Stephen Alter
In his novel Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers (2020), award-winning author Stephen Alter revisits Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, taking forward Mowgli’s story, transposing the classic jungle tale into unexplored terrain. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.
Excerpt: ‘WILD HIMALAYA: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth’
Stephen Alter’s Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth was published in August. Here’s an excerpt, where Alter delves deep into the world of an unlikely predator: the carnivorous sundew.