Top 20 Must-Reads by Vivek Menon
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 Vivek Menon, Founder and ED of Wildlife Trust of India.
Vivek Menon is a wildlife conservationist, environmental commentator, author and photographer with a passion for elephants. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) as well as Senior Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). The winner of 2001 Rufford Award for his work to save the Asian elephant, he is also the Chairperson of the IUCN SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group.
Mr. Menon is also the author of ten wildlife books including the ‘Secret Lives of Indian Mammals’, the bestselling ‘Indian Mammals: A Field Guide’, several technical reports and more than 150 articles in various scientific and popular publications.
His pick of the top reads on wildlife of India:
- Wildlife of India by EP Gee
- Man eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
- India’s Wildlife History Mahesh Rangarajan
- Lives in the wilderness: three classic Indian autobiographies of Jim Corbett (My India), Verrier Elwin ( the Tribal world) and Salim Ali ( The Fall of the Sparrow)
- The Deer and the Tiger by George Schaller
- Of Birds and Birdsong by M Krishnan
- The wild heart of India by Shanker Raman
- Dance of the Sarus by Theodore baskaran
- Field Days by AJT Johnsingh
- Wild Himalaya by Stephen Alter
His pick of the top reads on global wildlife topics:
- A sand county Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- The Soul of the Ape- The Soul of the Termite by Eugene Marais
- King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Snow leopard by Peter Matheissen
- People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
- In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
- The pandas thumb by Stephen Jay Gould
- Among the elephants Iain and Orio by Douglas-Hamilton
- The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
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