In addition to over fifty short stories, the selection includes all the longer works by Ruskin Bond: 'The Room on the Roof' and 'Vagrants in the Valley', two classic novels of adolescence;'A Flight of Pigeons', the haunting story of the capture of a young English girl by Pathan during the revolt of 1857; and 'Dehli is Not Far', where the narrator, a young bisexual writer, describes his ambivalent relationship with the streetwise Suraj and the prostitute Kamala.