Books on Nature, Wildlife and the Environment

Field Guides

1. Birds
• Ali Salim and Ripley Dillon S., Handbook of the birds of the Indian subcontinent (Compact Edition), BNHS, 1984.
• Ali Salim and Ripley Dillon S., Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, BNHS, 1995
• Ali Salim, The Book of Indian Birds, BNHS, 12th edition, 1996, Rs. 395
• Grewal Bikram, Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Gulmohur Press, 1995, Rs. 425
• Grimmett Richard, Inskipp Carol and Inskipp Tim, A Guide to the Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh,Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, Princeton University Press, 1999
2. Snakes
• Whitaker Romulus, Common Indian Snakes, Macmillan Co. Of India Ltd., 1978
• Deoras P.J., Snakes of India, National Book Trust, 1991, Rs. 36
• Daniel J.C., Book of Indian Reptiles, BNHS, 1983
• Smith M.A., The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo Chinese sub-region. Reptilia and Ambhibia Vol. 3, reprinted by Natraj Publishers, 1943, Rs. 250
: Still the most useful book for field identification of Indian snakes.
3. Mammals
• Prater S. H., The Book of Indian Animals, BNHS,1971
4. Butterflies
• Haribal Meena, Butterflies of Sikkim, , 1991
• Gay Thomas, Kehimkar Issac and Punetha Jagdish Chandra, Common butterflies of India, Oxford/WWF, 1991

Information on National parks

1. IUCN, Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia,IUCN,1993
2. Sinclair et al, Insight Guides: Indian Wildlife, Apa Publications, 1991

Natural History in General

1. Attenborough David, Life on Earth, BBC, 1983
2. Attenborough David, The Living Planet, BBC, 1984
3. Attenborough David, The Trials of Life, BBC, 1991

On Conservation oriented lifestyles

1. Quinn Daniel, Ishmael, Bantam/Turner, 1992
2. Quinn Daniel, The story of B, Bantam, 1996
3. Quinn Daniel, My Ishmael, Bantam, 1997
4. Gandhi, M.K., Hind Swaraj, Sarvodaya, 1930
5. Speech of Chief Seattle, 1854

Nature Photography

1. Shaw John, Nature Photographers Guide to Professional Field Techniques, Amphoto, 1984
2. Shaw John, Close-ups in Nature, Amphoto, 1987
3. Shaw John, Focus on Nature, Amphoto, 1991
4. Shaw John, Landscape Photography, Amphoto, 1994

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