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<B>This page is incomplete
and is under contruction. The books listed below are those that I have personally used. This list is not exhaustive, but it will serve as a useful staring point.</B>
<H2>
Field Guides</H2>

<OL>
<LI>
Birds</LI>

<UL>
<LI>
Ali Salim and Ripley Dillon S., Handbook of the birds of the Indian subcontinent (Compact Edition), BNHS, 1984.</LI>

<LI>
Ali Salim and Ripley Dillon S., Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian
Subcontinent, BNHS, 1995</LI>

<LI>
Ali Salim, The Book of Indian Birds, BNHS, 12th edition, 1996, Rs. 395</LI>

<LI>
Grewal Bikram, Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Gulmohur Press, 1995, Rs. 425</LI>

<LI>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 
</LI>
</UL>

<LI>
Snakes</LI>

<UL>
<LI>
Whitaker Romulus, Common Indian Snakes, Macmillan Co. Of India Ltd., 1978</LI>

<LI>
Deoras P.J., Snakes of India, National Book Trust, 1991, Rs. 36</LI>

<LI>
Daniel J.C., Book of Indian Reptiles, BNHS, 1983</LI>

<LI>
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</LI>: Still the most useful book for  field identification of Indian snakes.
</UL>

<LI>
Mammals</LI>

<UL>
<LI>
Prater S. H., The Book of Indian Animals, BNHS,1971</LI>
</UL>

<LI>
Butterflies</LI>

<UL>
<LI>
Haribal Meena, Butterflies of Sikkim, , 1991</LI>

<LI>
Gay Thomas, Kehimkar Issac and Punetha Jagdish Chandra, Common butterflies of India, Oxford/WWF, 1991</LI>

</UL>
</OL>

<H2>
Information on National parks</H2>

<OL>
<LI>
IUCN, Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia,IUCN,1993</LI>

<LI>
Sinclair et al, Insight Guides: Indian Wildlife, Apa Publications, 1991</LI>
</OL>

<H2>
Natural History in General</H2>

<OL>
<LI>
Attenborough David, Life on Earth, BBC, 1983</LI>

<LI>
Attenborough David, The Living Planet, BBC, 1984</LI>

<LI>
Attenborough David, The Trials of Life, BBC, 1991</LI>
</OL>

<H2>
On Conservation oriented lifestyles</H2>

<OL>
<LI>
Quinn Daniel, <A HREF="http://www.ishmael.com/">Ishmael</A>, Bantam/Turner,
1992</LI>

<LI>
Quinn Daniel, <A HREF="http://www.b-network.com/">The story of B</A>,

Bantam, 1996</LI>

<LI>
Quinn Daniel, <A HREF="http://www.ishmael.org/">My Ishmael</A>,

Bantam, 1997</LI>
<LI>
Gandhi, M.K., Hind Swaraj, Sarvodaya, 1930</LI>

<LI>
<A HREF="seattle-washington.html">Speech </A>of Chief Seattle, 1854</LI>
</OL>

<H2>
Nature Photography</H2>

<OL>
<LI>
Shaw John, Nature Photographers Guide to Professional Field Techniques,
Amphoto, 1984</LI>

<LI>
Shaw John, Close-ups in Nature, Amphoto, 1987</LI>

<LI>
Shaw John, Focus on Nature, Amphoto, 1991</LI>

<LI>
Shaw John, Landscape Photography, Amphoto, 1994</LI>
</OL>

Most of these books can be purchased online at the <A HREF="http://www.nhbs.com/">Natural History Book Store</A>.