T R Shankar Raman

Gebundenes Buch

The Wild Heart of India

Nature in the City, the Country, and the Wild

Beschreibung

Across India, nature thrives in cities, the countryside, and the wild. In this book, the author, a wildlife biologist, brings alive his field experiences in cities like Chennai and Guwahati, in farms and fallows from Rajasthan to Mizoram, and in remote wildlife reserves from the Western Ghats to the Himalaya. Personal and reflective, the essays evoke diverse species, people, and places emphasizing how they are all interconnected. It reaffirms a place for humans in nature and a place for nature in our lives, minds, and hearts.

Autor

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. Living in the Anamalai Hills, he is part of a team stitching together 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 natural history, in conservation practice, in directionless wandering. His reflective essays are born of a conviction that there remains a space for quiet yet insistent voices making a case for immersive and deeper perceptions of nature and our place in it. Shankar Raman works as a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation (www.ncf-india.org) and is the author of numerous academic papers, book chapters, blog posts, and creative nonfiction essays and articles for newspapers and magazines. His partner Divya Mudappa and he lead a long-term rainforest conservation and restoration programme from a field research station in the Anamalai Hills. Their home in the mountains is visited by neighbourly leopards and temperamental housecats.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199494743
• ISBN-10: 0199494746
• Artikelnr.: 59582472