The Fall of a Sparrow
A Birds, Nature, Memoir book. I had read this before - but couldn't recall much except that for the purposes of study birds were...
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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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 128 pages
- ISBN: 9780195687477 / 195687477
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Full review on Tabula Rasa.Even as I write this review, I am reminded of a quote I keep quoting from The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, about how writers can be wholly different from their books. This is not exactly the same, but even so, it is a case of discovering what your childhood hero was really like, stacking achievements alongside... The Fall of a Sparrow narrates the real life story of Salim Ali, father of Indian Ornithology. This engaging auto-biography describes how Salim Ali chose the road not taken. After all the ordeals in life that one normally faces in Indian society when they chose to be different from the madding crowd, Salim Ali a simple man with just... I had read this before - but couldn't recall much except that for the purposes of study birds were hunted, stuffed and mounted by ornithologists. On the second reading as adult, I now know the reason why. Due to work as well as tedious writing - book was a slow read. Moreover, there aren't many riveting highlights and those that are...
