The fall of a sparrow/ by Salim Ali
By: Ali, Salim.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985, 2014Edition: 18th Impression.Description: 265 p.ISBN: 9780195621273.Subject(s): AutobiographyDDC classification: 923 Summary: Book Summary In this engaging autobiography, India's greatest ornithologist Salim Ali recounts his exciting experiences in the outdoors and chronicles his unusual love of birds. Eighty-seven at the time of writing and an internationally renowned figure, he vividly describes expeditions to almost every part of the subcontinent, including the old Princely States, Burma, Sikkim, Tibet, Bhutan and Afghanistan. As he tells of his life as motorcyclist, timber merchant, scientist, author and decorated celebrity, a picture also emerges of pre-independent India, of Maharajas and colonial administration.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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[REF] | Christ Junior College ->Autobiography&Biography | Reference | 923 ALI (Browse shelf) | Available | 00019773 |
Book Summary
In this engaging autobiography, India's greatest ornithologist Salim Ali recounts his exciting experiences in the outdoors and chronicles his unusual love of birds. Eighty-seven at the time of writing and an internationally renowned figure, he vividly describes expeditions to almost every part of the subcontinent, including the old Princely States, Burma, Sikkim, Tibet, Bhutan and Afghanistan. As he tells of his life as motorcyclist, timber merchant, scientist, author and decorated celebrity, a picture also emerges of pre-independent India, of Maharajas and colonial administration.
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