Andamans Boy – Zai Whitaker

Tired of life in Mumbai with his Chacha and Chachi, Arif runs away far, far away. He hops onto a train going to Chennai. From there he smuggles himself onto a boat going to… The Andaman islands! Rich with adventure and humour, full of the wonders of nature, the book is also filled with details about the unique, misunderstood world of the Jarawa, a tribe in the Andamans whose very survival is being threatened, especially by the forces of so-called development. Nature drawings by Indraneil Das are beautifully offset by soft pencil sketches of the adventure by Ashok Rajagopalan.