The Wild Heart of India: Nature in the City, the Country, and the Wild - Hardcover

Raman, Dr. T.R. Shankar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199494746 ISBN 13: 9780199494743

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 510

About the Book
wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses-from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha-but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollute rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks-impelling a motivation to care, and to conserve nature.
Through this collection of essays, Shankar Raman attempts to blur, I not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too
About the Author
T.R. Shankar Raman (aka Sridhar) is a constant wanderer with a miserable sense of direction. And yet, having a sense of direction is only important if you have a destination in mind. Which is why, even though he rarely knows where he is, he is seldom lost. When he is not doing field research on forest ecology or mulling over environmental issues, you can find him walking in the rainforests watching birds and trees, or with his nose in a book. In his reading, he is more gourmand than gourmet-Louis L'Amour, Herge, and Bradbury stand with Steinbeck, Leopold, and Dickinson on his eclectic bookshelf. He obsesses over his reading lists as much as his eBird checklists. Living in the Anamalai Hills, he is part of a team stitching fragmented rainforests-one sapling at a time, year upon year upon decade. After he is done plucking the leeches from his ankles and dusting the earth from his fingers, he writes. He writes from his varied experiences in n

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0199494746
• ISBN 13: 9780199494743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 508