NCERT Solutions for Poorvi Chapter 4 Travel And Adventure

About this chapter

The unit carries three pieces. The Tunnel by Ruskin Bond is a story about Suraj, a boy who walks through a jungle railway tunnel to see a steam engine, and Sunder Singh, the watchman who calls the tunnel and even the leopard his own . Travel is a short lyric poem by the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The railroad track is miles away, yet by day the speaker hears the whistle and by night she sees the engine's red cinders — and she would board any train, no matter where it is going. Conquering the Summit is the true story of Arunima Sinha , the national-level volleyball player who lost a leg in a train accident in 2011 and became, in 2013, the first Indian female amputee to stand on the summit of Mount Everest. All three pieces turn on the same idea — curiosity, courage and the pull

• The Tunnel
• The Tunnel, Part I
• The Tunnel, Part II
• Travel (poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Travel (poem)
• Conquering the Summit