Chander Pahar is a Bengali novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay in 1937. Chronicling the adventures of a Bengali boy in the forests of Africa, it is considered to be one of the most important adventure novels written in the Bengali language.
The novel tells the description of an undistinguished youth Bengali boy, Shankar,from a nondescript village of Bengal, and his adventures in Africa in the years 1909-1910. Shankar Roy Chowdhury, the protagonist, is a 20-year-pass teens, recently graduated from intellectual and due to financial difficulties in the relatives, was about to succession going on a job in a jute mill of Shyamnagar, a prospect he absolutely loathes.
Since childhood geography has been his pet subject ;he has wanted to follow the footsteps of famous explorers in imitation of Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo, all of whom he has access roughly. He yearns for adventure, wild lands, forests and animals and the continent of Africa. By a events of luck, he secures a job as a clerk in Uganda Railway through an acquaintance already holding a supplement taking place there and joyously rushes to Africa without a second thought.
There, he spends a few months as a allocation of a company laying rail tracks but soon encounters the first of many dangers of Pre-World War I Africaman-eating lions who claim the lives of a few of his attachment-found links in Africa. Later he takes going on a job as station master in a desolate station amidst the Veldts. Here his presence of mind enables him to have a narrow escape from choice hazard in Africa: the deadly black mamba. While at this declare, Shankar one hours of day
The novel tells the description of an undistinguished youth Bengali boy, Shankar,from a nondescript village of Bengal, and his adventures in Africa in the years 1909-1910. Shankar Roy Chowdhury, the protagonist, is a 20-year-pass teens, recently graduated from intellectual and due to financial difficulties in the relatives, was about to succession going on a job in a jute mill of Shyamnagar, a prospect he absolutely loathes.
Since childhood geography has been his pet subject ;he has wanted to follow the footsteps of famous explorers in imitation of Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo, all of whom he has access roughly. He yearns for adventure, wild lands, forests and animals and the continent of Africa. By a events of luck, he secures a job as a clerk in Uganda Railway through an acquaintance already holding a supplement taking place there and joyously rushes to Africa without a second thought.
There, he spends a few months as a allocation of a company laying rail tracks but soon encounters the first of many dangers of Pre-World War I Africaman-eating lions who claim the lives of a few of his attachment-found links in Africa. Later he takes going on a job as station master in a desolate station amidst the Veldts. Here his presence of mind enables him to have a narrow escape from choice hazard in Africa: the deadly black mamba. While at this declare, Shankar one hours of day
