New Arrivals: Books on Nature and Wildlife
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) have published A New Book(Co-publisher:Oxford University Press) titled-
BIRDS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT-A Field Guide
by Ranjit Manakadan,J.C.Daniel &Nikhil Bhopale
Price:Rs.550
The Book appears to be Handy but lacks "Call of the Bird"
SaktiWild
New Arrival:A GUIDE TO BIRDS OF INDIA etc by RICHARD GRIMMET AND OTHERS
This famous book was out of Print for a long time.Yesterday I visited Oxford's Main Book Store in Salt Lake,Sector-V,Kolkata(my favourite haunting ground) and found displaying of the leaflet about the ensuing arrival of the New Print of the Book enriched with Colour Plates. They confirmed that the Book may reach their store anytime definitely within December,2011.SaktiWild
New arrival:country notebook:m.krishnan
THE STATESMAN,KOLKATA:SUNDAY:01-01-2012
"Beginning in 1950 and for more than four decades,late M.Krishnan contributed"Country Notebook"to the Sunday Statesman.He kept several generations of readers enthralled with his whimsical,brilliant prose and his acute observation of nature.2012 is the birth centenary of the naturalist,photographer,writer and artist and we pay tribute to him by publishing a selection of his earliest writings.Beginning today,and every Sunday,Country Notebook will appear in the Sunday Statesman once again to evoke nostalgia among older readers and to acquaint younger ones with the work of a genius.The first installment of this re-issued series appears in 8th Day."-The Sunday Statesman,Kolkata dated 01-01-2012.
Yesterday in the Sunday Statesman (01-01-2011) his article;"VOICE OF SPRING" was re-printed on the pages of the supplement titled 8th Day which forms a part of The Sunday Statesman.
SaktiWild
N.B:
The Moderator is requested NOT to post my late night writing yesterday(01-01-2012) in a separate thread opened by MISTAKE as I propose to post a Tribute to M.Krishnan after going through a number of re-issued articles at a later date.
Voice of spring: M.krishnan
"The koel is associated with spring inseparably in every Indian language.No bird has its voice more celebrated in romantic literature.There are other songsters in our country with more musical natures and more melodious throats,many others.I have heard the Shama and the Racket-tailed Drongo in the same patch of the forest; sweet,rich, liquid melody poured out in passionate song, and the Drongo's high, clear greetings to the sun.The Magpie Robin,Laughing Thrushes and the Pied Wagtail, familiar birds all, have exceptional musical gifts and sing freely and charmingly.The Skylark's fragile,pure voice comes down on field and fallow land in the countryside, the Fantail Flycatcher sings its little tinkling little song in the mango groves and even the homely Bushchat, sitting atop one's gate is capable of a wild,welling,joyous melody.How is that in a land where such birds are around, the koel, musically far less accomplished, has had his voice so celebrated?
The answer lies in the association between koel and spring, and love and spring."-M.Krishnan
This paragraph has been quoted from first installment of the re-printed series from "Country Notebook" by M.Krishnan in the SUNDAY STATESMAN dated 01-01-2012.This was first published on 27-08-1950.
I thought, I may place one paragraph from his first re-printed article before our members and viewers for what he meant about observation and the literary beauty of his writing.SaktiWild
New Arrival:Voices in the Wilderness
VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS:
Contemporary Wildlife Writings
Edited by:Prerna Singh Bindra
Rupa & Co
New Delhi
Price: Rs.395
(Pages:235,Photo Plates:30)
A collection of some of the most lucid writings on India's wildlife by over twenty distinguished naturalists,scientists and authors whose writings paint a vivid picture of India's amazing wildlife, from the charismatic tiger to the caterpillar.
SaktiWild
New Arrival:THE BOOK OF INDIAN BIRDS: SALIM ALI
13 th. Edition
Revised by J.C.Daniel 2012
With 64 Plates in colour by Carl D'Silva (depicting 538 species)
5 in line and 8 plates of colour photographs
BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price:Rs.495/=
SaktiWild
New Arrival: of BIRDS and BIRDSONG : M.KRISHNAN
First published in India 2012
forwarded by Zafar Futehally
edited by Shanthi and Ashish Chandola
ALEPH BOOK COMPANY
New Delhi
Price:Rs.595/=
SaktiWild
New Arrival: MY KUMAON Uncollected Writings : JIM CORBETT
First published in 2012
Second impression 2012
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: Rs.225/=
SaktiWild