Chander Pahar
Signet Press edition cover
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| Author | Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay |
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| Translators | Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri, Pradeep Kumar Sinha (2002 translation, reprinted 2007) |
| Illustrator | Shyamalkrishna Bose |
| Cover artist | Satyajit Ray |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
| Genre | Adventure/Drama novel |
| Publisher | M. C. Sircar & Sons Limited (Bengali), Orient Blackswan (English translation, 2002) |
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Publication date
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1937 |
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Published in English
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1 July 2002 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 175 pp (Eng. trans. edition) |
| ISBN | |
| Moon Mountain | |
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Cover page of the Graphic novel
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| Date | 15 Feb 2014 |
| Page count | 160 pages |
| Publisher | Penguin India |
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Saurav Mohapatra |
| Artist | Sayan Mukherjee |
| Creator | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay |
| Original publication | |
| Language | English |
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Chander Pahar (Bengali: চাঁদের পাহাড়, English: Mountain of the Moon) is a Bengali adventure novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and published in 1937. The novel follows the adventures of a young Bengali man in the forests of Africa. The novel is one of the most-loved adventure novels in the Bengali literature and is one of Bibhutibhushan's most popular works. It spawned a media franchise.
This novel tells the story of an ordinary young Bengali man, Shankar Roy Chaudhary, as he adventures in Africa in the years 1909 and 1910. After graduating from college at 20-years-old, his family's financial struggles almost force him take a job in a jute mill in Shyamnagar — a prospect he absolutely loathes.
Because loves the subject of geography, he wants to follow the footsteps of renowned explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo. He wants to explore the wilderness, passionate for learning about African forests and animals. By a stroke of luck, he gets a job as a clerk at the Uganda Railway and rushes to Africa without a second thought.
After a few months laying rail tracks, he encounters the first of many dangers in pre-World War I Africa: a man-eating lion. Later, he takes up a job as station-master in a desolate station amidst the Veldts, where he to narrowly escapes a deadly black mamba. While at this post, Shankar encounters, rescues and nurses Diego Alvarez, a middle-age Portuguese explorer and gold/diamond prospector. Alvarez's arrival becomes a turning point in Shankar's life.
While recovering, Alvarez describes his exploits in Africa with his friend Jim Carter. He explains that, lured by the prosepect of a priceless yellow diamond from a Kaafi village chief, Alvarez and Carter searched for these yellow diamond caves, on the Mountain of the Moon (Chander Pahar) in the Richtersveldt. Rumors suggested a mythical monster, the Bunyip, guards the mine. The explorers set off into the dense jungle, much against the villagers' advice, and Carter was gruesomely killed, supposedly by the Bunyip.
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