Top 20 Must-Reads by Ananda Banerjee
This must-read series by Wildlife Trust of India features 10 eminent wildlife experts who share their list of top 20 wildlife titles. This time we have Ananda Banerjee, award winning wildlife journalist.
Ananda Banerjee is a multi-award-winning journalist/columnist, author and visual artist. He has been able to straddle diverse organizations across his long career, bringing to each his deep knowledge of environmental issues. Banerjee has been part of several leading media institutions, national and international non-profit organizations, corporates and government bodies to give a voice to important environmental and development trends, through his research, writing, and artwork. His interest lies in ornithology, environmental economics, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and ecological restorations. He is the recipient of – the Earth Heroes Award (2015). Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Environmental Journalist of the Year, Asian Environmental Journalist Awards (Singapore Environment Council, 2014), and the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (2013).
His pick of the top reads on wildlife of India:
- Deer & the tiger by G Schaller
- Butterflies on the roof of the world by Peter Smetacek
- From Soup to Superstar by K Shanker
- Running away from Elephants by Rauf Ali
- Crooked Cats by Nayanika Mathur
- Indira – Life in Nature by Jairam Ramesh
- The Story of Asia’s Lions by Divyanhanusinh
- Elephant Days & Nights by R Sukumar
- A view from the Machan by U Karanth
- On the Brink by Vivek Menon
His pick of the top reads on global wildlife topics:
- Cry of the Kalahari by Mark & Delia Owens
- Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (+ all his other books)
- The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf
- Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tomkimson and Christopher Bird
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- Shadow Of The Thylacine by Col Bailey
- The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
- The Signature of all things by Elizabeth Gilbert (fiction and a must-read)
- Song of the Dodo by David Quammen (+ all his other books)
- Between The Lizard King by Bryan Christy and The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson (on wildlife trade)
*Disclaimer – the list doesn’t include edited works and is subject to change with Goodreads in the future
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