| Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm Identification Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp
Publisher: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
Buy Used: £218.29
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1228935
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 784
ISBN: 0713640049
EAN: 9780713640045
ASIN: 0713640049
Publication Date: November 30, 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Best book on birds of the region January 5, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has been long awaited. There is nothing to compare. Both illusrations and text are superb. Bye this book now! If you cannot aford it get the paperback edition.
 background detail to book April 7, 1999
To get an idea of the significance of this book, it may help to know that one of the contributors, Shahid Ali, spent months in London at the British Museum checking entries against preserved specimens. Hence, accuracy has been given due consideration in this volume. Shahid Ali, by the way, is grand nephew of Salim Ali, India's greatest ornithologist to date (his books are still relevant and can be ordered via Amazon!). If you cannot take the book with you into the field why not take Shahid! He is based in Mumbai (Bombay)..............
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