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One of India's most active conservationists, Billy Arjan Singh has waged an unremitting battle against environmental destruction for several years. His extensive writings are an impressive and reliable record of the large-scale changes in the North Indian countryside, and a tale of one man's efforts to stem the tide of destruction. This volume gathers together some his most significant wildlife writing, giving an overview of a life spent in a uniquely ...
The four books in this omnibus chronicle the struggle to save the endangered predator, the Indian tiger, that has always ruled Indian jungles. This evocative selection focuses on both the lives of tigers, and of a few men who have struggled against overwhelming odds to save the species from extinction. In the first book Tiger Wallahs: Saving the Greatest of the Great Cats, Geoffrey and Diane Ward introduce some of India’s most remarkable tigerwallahs: Jim ...
One hundred years ago India was a sportsman's paradise. Now, almost unnoticed by the world, Indian wildlife has faded away under the pressure of people and cultivation; the tiger population has been reduced to less than 2,000, and the deer and antelope, which were once so numerous, have, in many places, been harried out of existence. This book is the story of the work of one man, Billy Arjan Singh, to protect Indian wildlife in one small area. Tiger Haven stands ...