A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent: Published in 1997, conservationist and writer Valmik Thapar’s book observes the ...

Like his works of fiction, the essays showcase what Ghosh is best at — lending an attentive ear to migrants, sailors, ...

Miles, a National Book Award-winning historian at Harvard, begins “Wild Girls” with memories ... including the Fort Shaw Indian School, a federal boarding school in Montana, where it was ...

Besides, it was now evident that this wild animal was not so wild after all ... Besides documenting these incredible lives, the book brings to light little -known facets of various species ...

Extracted with permission from Wild Fictions, Amitav Ghosh, HarperCollins India. In the age of the sailing ship, indigenous sailors from the Indian Ocean ... (as opposed to book-learnt) European ...

“Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement” (2005) This book by Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural development of the modern ...

and clear-sighted for her aim is to show the “paradoxes and inversions of the spiritual journey” that wild women undertake. The shorter second part of the book focuses on women protagonists ...