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Eye in the Jungle

M. Krishnan. Compiled by Ashish and Shanthi Chandola with T.N.A. Perumal, Universities Press, 2005, 128 p, plates, ISBN : 9788173715549, $65.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Eye in the Jungle/M. Krishnan

Contents: 1. The birth of a book/Shanthi Chandola. 2. M. Krishnan: a biographical sketch/Ramachandra Guha. 3. The Craft of a unique photographer/T.N.A. Perumal. 4. The fine art of photography/M. Krishnan. 5. An ebullience of elephants. 6. An hour with a king. 7. Elephant children. 8. One-eyed Tara. 9. My distinguished neighbour. 10. A day's Span of life. 11. The ear that hears. 12. The spirit of the forest. 13. Sambar and son. 14. A strident alarmist. 15. The mouse deer. 16. The misanthropoid. 17. Monkeying in the deep. 18. Giant squirrel. 19. The fretful porpentine. 20. A spiky customer. 21. Wild boar. 22. The biscobra. 23. Snakebird and median egret. 24. Caspian tern. 25. A brightness in the grass. 26. Leopards in the dark. Index to photographs.

"M. Krishnan (1912-1996) was endowed with a wide range of interests and amazing prowess as a writer in both his native Tamil and English. He wrote on anything that caught his attention, from dog-shows to cricket, local breeds of cattle to temple carvings, squirrels in his backyard to elephants, gaur and mouse deer of the forests. He did not just write occasionally, but wrote steadily and inspiringly for well over 35 years. 

A pioneer in the field of black and white photography, Krishnan's contribution to wildlife photography and writing on natural history in India has no parallel. In this special compilation, an effort has been made to select lively and anecdotal text for which Krishnan has been recognized, to accompany images that he created which are in a class of their own." (jacket)

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