In The Shadow Of The Leaves

Rohan and his mother are holidaying in the Kumaon Hills. Rohan should be practising Maths because he failed in his exam, but he is spending a lot of time reading Jim Corbett’s Maneaters of Kumaon and wandering in the hills with Manjul, who herds cows. The two have become friends because Rohan admires the way she jumps streams like a little cat and her knowledge of the woods. Into their lives somes a tiger which is apparently killing cattle in the nearby villages. And then. . . there is a mysterious man with a moustache who materializes at night and seems to be able to talk to both children and tigers. Rohan is convinced that he is Jim Corbett’s ghost. Manjul disagrees. Whoever the mysterious man is, his task is to save the tiger from poachers and herd it back into the National Park