Alter, Stephen

Presents a comprehensive examination of the Indian elephant and traces their history, Indian art, religion, and folklore about the elephant, and discusses efforts to protect their habitat.

A collection of Indian short stories written in the last 50 years.

Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years ago.

While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.

The author provides an account of his trek to Garhwal, the four sources of the Ganges River in northern India, and shares information about the plants and animals he encounters, Hindu myths associated with the terrain, and people he meets along with way.

Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years ago.