num_pages: 168
description: In this engaging autobiography, India's greatest ornithologist Salim Ali 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.
language: English
title: The Fall of a Sparrow
titlecomplete: The Fall of a Sparrow
genres: Autobiography, India, Birds, Animals, Nonfiction, Nature, Wildlife, Biography
ratings_count: 221
publisher: Oxford University Press