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Book Review | Salim Ali: An improbable beginning, a great end
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The Illustrated Salim Ali The Fall of a Sparrow
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In this engaging autobiography, India's greatest ornithologist Salim Ali (1896-1987) 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.
`a most readable book that can be thoroughly recommended, not only for its ornithological interest, but also for the insight it gives into Indian life' - J Summers-Smith, IBIS
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The Fall of a Sparrow
1985 book by Salim Ali
The Fall of a Sparrow is a autobiographical book by Salim Ali that was published in 1985 by Oxford University Press.[1]
Overview
[edit]The book was written towards the end of Salim Ali's life, with encouragement from R. E. Hawkins of Oxford University Press, which published it in 1985, just two years before his death in 1987 at age 91. Ali recalls the incident with the yellow-throated sparrow as a defining moment in his life, one that led him to pursue a career in ornithology, which was an uncommon path of study at the time, particularly for an Indian.[2]
Reception
[edit]In Textbook for Environmental Studies of University Grants Commission wrote "‘Fall of a Sparrow’ should be read by every nature enthusiast.".[3]
Kalyani N, of Deccan Herald wrote "The Fall of a Sparrow has a little bit of everything — politics, society, history, geography, economics, education, and adventure, besides, of course, nature, environment and birds. There is a great deal of interesting trivia about Salim Ali’s life."[4]
Dilip Bobb of India Today writes, "The reader's interest is sustained to the end, where Ali lays out what he terms his Articles of Faith in the epilogue in the form of imaginar