About the Book: Salim Ali For Children : The Bird Man Of India
OF COURSE THERE WERE BIRDS IN THE BUSHES, TREES AND SKIES BEFORE SÁLIM ALI. BUT
IT WAS HE WHO PUT THEM ON INDIA'S MAP FOREVER.
From being a trigger-happy airgun-toting nine-year-old boy to becoming one of
the foremost bird scientists in the world, Sálim Ali did not follow a straight
path. Somewhere along his adventures between India, Burma and Europe, he
developed such a single-minded zeal for the study of feathered creatures that he
spent all his time close to them.
Over the long course of researching bird life, in the days when there