Journeys Through India’s Last Wild Places

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In a nutshell, even though it appears as a classic coffee-table, it is not just a book showcasing beautiful images in this digital age. It is as authoritative as it is a visual feast. You could say it is the perfect Coffee-table with lots of authoritative, enjoyable text to read.

At 312 pages, with slightly over a whopping 800 images and a 50,000 word text, it looks at India across its biogeographical framework. It looks at the great tapestry of design of nature’s experiments across India’s incredible landscapes, from islands and the coast to a gamut of inland, terrestrial habitats and landscapes from the high Himalaya to the desert and the tropical evergreen jungles. It looks at how we are left with just a handful of tangibly wild places, indeed the very last of them, amid one-sixth of humanity!

India occupies barely over 2% of the planet’s land surface area, and on this exists a biodiversity, a natural heritage that consists of nearly a 1,00,000 known species of fauna that includes an eight of all the world’s birds and fish diversity, a sixth of the flowering plants and so much else.

Journeys through India’s Last Wild Places looks at the country’s biogeographical design through the largest collection of wild habitats/landscapes and biodiversity images, many of which were taken on special journeys during the past 18 months.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sunjoy Monga

Sunjoy Monga Naturalist-Photographer-Writer, Sunjoy Monga is deeply committed to observing and spreading awareness about biodiversity/natural history and environment. Widely travelled, Sunjoy Monga has written and photographed extensively for over a quarter of a century, and his work has appeared in numerous publications. Sunjoy is one of those who finds equal pleasure in observing and discovering nature's secrets in pristine wildernesses as in polluted urban environs. He believes that nature is increasingly, and continuously adjusting to humanity's fickle ways and that is we who will have to show maturity in our response to inevitable change, in order to sustainable ensure our ecological well-being. He also believes that a dovetailing of ecological considerations with rising economic interests spells the best hope for overall good of all. Sunjoy has also been a consultant and cinematographer for several national and international documentary film projects.

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Title
Journeys Through India’s Last Wild Places
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8192250903, 9788192250908
Length
312p., Colour; Illustrations; Colour; Maps; 30cm.
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