Nowadays most people call themselves travel enthusiasts and travel vlogging has become a trending profession. Whenever we plan to travel somewhere, we tend to watch innumerable videos and sometimes articles to gather basic knowledge and information about our destination. How about reading some really interesting books rich in information.
Let’s know about the following two books written on Kanha Tiger Reserve and National Park, one by an Indian author and another by a foreigner.
1. Kanha Tiger Reserve: Portrait of an Indian National Park [Carroll Moulton, Ernie Hulsey and E. Husley]
In 1990 Ernie Hulsey and Carroll Moulton, two New York based tourists, visited Kanha National Park. Mesmerised by the experience, for the next nine years, they considered it to be the best national park they have ever visited to spot tigers. Even after visiting several national parks and experiencing wildlife, they were unable to forget Kanha National Park. They penned down their experience in their book Kanha Tiger Reserve: Portrait of an Indian National Park, which serves as a detailed guide about the one of the most well-managed parks of India, safeguarding the endangered species.
According to Ernie Hulsey, the intention of the book is to make people realise the beauty of the entire park - the nature, animals, birds, water bodies and so on. The tourists visiting Kanha should understand that sighting tigers is not the only task in the national park. There’s nothing to get disappointed in if one does not get to sight a tiger. There is so much to experience there.
The book contains a detailed note of the climate condition, Best time to visit Kanha, biodiversity, ecosystem, flora, fauna, tiger spotting hints, etc. the authors even gratefully have dedicated a specialised section about their Gypsy driver Rehman Khan and the mahout Ahmed Sabir. The book also mentions the local residents of Kanha National Park.
2. A Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of Kanha Tiger Reserve [Aniruddha Dhamorikar]
Aniruddha Dhamorikar is a master’s degree holder in Environment and Sustainability, and Zoology and an enthusiastic individual, interested in the study of spiders and insects. According to him, nature's creations are more than just science. Dhamorikar describes them as magical phenomenons. He further urges that the human beings on Earth should observe their beautiful surroundings of birds, ants, bees, trees, oceans and mountains, and realise that humankind is also a part of this and not the ruler of nature.
The book A Field Guide to Insects & Spiders of Kanha Tiger Reserve is an answer to a question about the importance of the invertebrates, and the diversity and ecology of the spiders and insects of Kanha National Park as studied and recorded by Aniruddha Dhamorikar.
For a better comprehension of the readers, the author divided the books into 6 sections.
Section 1 - Basic identification of common spiders and insects of Kanha National Park.
Section 2 - Diversity and density of insects.
Section 3 - Density and diversity of spiders.
Section 4 - Detailed note on the ecological role played by the invertebrates.
Section 5 - A discussion based on scientific and educational recommendations about the group of organisms in Kanha.
Section 6 - Index, glossary and bibliography.
All of these sections are further divided into several subdivisions filled with micro-description. The book is rich in information about 600 species of invertebrates available at Kanha National Park, accompanied by relevant images.
