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Title | The Fall of a Sparrow | Height | 25 mm |
Author | Salim Ali | Width | 1 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9780195687477 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | #0195687477 | Spine Width | |
Publisher | Andromeda Oxford Ltd | Pages | |
Edition | Availability | Out Of Stock |

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The Fall of a Sparrow
Author: Salim Ali
In this engaging autobiography, Indias 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, Bh In this engaging autobiography, Indias 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.