Ruskin Bond reintroduces one of his favourite authors to readers in this beautiful new edition. One of the most popular naturalist-writers of his time, EHA (1851 1909) was one of the founding members of the Bombay Natural History Society. The Tribes on My Frontier is the author s witty and entertaining take on the tribes on his frontier the birds, beasts and insects that inhabited the general vicinity of his house in Dustypore . Book Reviews EHA, while being as knowledgeable as any naturalist, will make you smile or chuckle or laugh out loud. This was what made his books so entertaining, and so readable today, a hundred years after they first appeared. Ruskin Bond A parrot never forgets its dignity, and is in that unlike the monkey, which has no dignity to forget EHA Ruskin Bond s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children s books, many of which have been published by Penguin India. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.