The Lost Wilderness

The Lost Wilderness is a collection of true stories of encounters with wild animals in the forests which have been lost to posterity.

They take one back in time to the Siddh-sot in Chandi Range before its overexploitation by graziers and the forest department, and to Boxar and Sher-Bhujji forests in Corbett National Park before these were lost by submergence following the construction of the Kalagarh dam.

It presents a unique synthesis of scientific facts with literary art. The pictur-esque descriptions of nature's pristine beauty and the vignettes of the jungle world word-painted in the author's poetic prose add exquisite dimension and immense readability to the narration of the incidents that had taken place in those forests in the past. At the same time, the book is a valuable reference material for understanding the area and its wildlife in the past. Scholars of natural history will be able tko sieve out the ecological and ethological truths from the text.