THE FALL OF A SPARROW An Autobiography An Autobiography
Salim, Ali
THE FALL OF A SPARROW An Autobiography An Autobiography - New DelhI Oxford University Press 2024 - 266
WORDI/2025/CRB/603
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
Biography
920 / ALI
THE FALL OF A SPARROW An Autobiography An Autobiography - New DelhI Oxford University Press 2024 - 266
WORDI/2025/CRB/603
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
Biography
920 / ALI