CONTENTS:-
Message - The Hon’ble President of India
All You Wanted to Know about Natural World Heritage: A Primer - Sonali Ghosh & Vinod B. Mathur
A Treasury of Wild Words - Prerna Singh Bindra
Writing Outdoors - Stephen Alter
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area:
1. Reflections on the Great Himalayan National Park / Payson Stevens
2. GHNP: The Wilds and Its People / Sanjeeva Pandey
Kaziranga National Park:
3. Kaziranga Diaries / Sonali Ghosh
4. Kaziranga: The Gem of India / Asad Rahmani
5. Back to the Future: One Hundred Years of Conservation / Bittu Sahgal & Ranjit Barthakur
Keoladeo National Park:
6. The Keoladeo Ghana of Bharatpur (Rajasthan) / Salim Ali
7. A Bharatpur Aficionado Remembers / Peter Jackson
8. Bharatpur: Brushstrokes from the Past / Ranjit Lal
Khangchendzonga National Park:
9. Securing Khangchendzonga: Healthy Forests, Happy People / Sandeep Tambe
10. Aspiration / Francis Younghusband
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary:
11. Manas: Monkeys and Mysteries / E.P. Gee
12. Monuments Men: A Story for Manas / Sonali Ghosh
13. The Magic of Manas / Asad Rahmani
Royal Manas National Park:
14. Finding Culture through Nature / Tenzin Wangchuk
15. Treasures of the Thunder Dragon / Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks:
16. In the Shadow of Nanda Devi / Samir Sinha
17. Becoming a Mountain / Stephen Alter
18. On Doing Nothing / Frank S. Smythe
Sundarbans National Park:
19. The Sundarbans Inheritance: Protecting a People’s Legacy / Bittu Sahgal
20. Sundarban: A Mystical Tiger Swamp / Pradeep Vyas & Cheena Vyas
21. An Epiphany / Amitav Ghosh
The Sundarbans:
22. The Lord of Mud and Tide / Ruth Padel
23. The Princess of Angtihara / Samia Saif
Western Ghats:
24. Mountains of the Monsoon / Kamal Bawa & Sandesh Kadur
25. A Wealth of Wildlife / Prerna Singh Bindra
26. Cliff Goats / E.R.C. Davidar
27. Kas Plateau: Tackling the Tourism Tsunami / Prerna Agarwal
28. A Day in Periyar / M. Krishnan
29. Nagarahole: A World of Predators / K. Ullas Karanth
30. Sacred Groves: Memories of What Had Been / Erach Bharucha
31. Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason / Sugatha Kumari
32. A Sojourn through the Sahyadris / Girish Punjabi
33. A More than Memorable Trek / A.J.T. Johnsingh
34. Seasons in the Sun: An Avian Rhapsody / Manoj Nair
35. For All Things Little / Anuranjan Roy
Band-e-Amir (Afghanistan):
36. Band-e-Amir National Park: A Sacred Land of Azure Lakes / Abdul Wali Modaqiq & Richard Paley
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka:
37. Wonders Hidden in the Mist / Dishane Hewavithana, Eric Wikramanayake, Manori Gunawardena & Dhiya Sathananthan
38. Into the Wet: Field Notes from Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone / Ian Lockwood
Chitwan National Park (Nepal):
39. Kingdom of the Unicorn / Alex Dudley
40. Chitwan: A Heavenly Abode / Kanchan Thapa
Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary (Myanmar)
41. The Valley of Death / Alan Rabinowitz
Lut Desert (Iran):
42. Extreme: The Incredible Ecosystem of Earth’s Hottest Spot / Richard Stone
Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal):
43. Mount Everest: Return of the Snow Leopard / Som B. Vale
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries: Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains (China):
44. A Mountain of Treasure / George Schaller
Western Tien Shan (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan):
45. Tien Shan: Mountain of Heaven / Koustubh Sharma
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
