Stephen Alter is an award-winning author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth, Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime, and In The Jungles of the Night: A novel about Jim Corbett. He lives and writes in Mussoorie.
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.