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.
- ISBN10 0195687477
- ISBN13 9780195687477
- Publish Date December 2006 (first published 27 March 1986)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 December 2021
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168
- Language English