Martin Goodman

My Head For A Tree (eBook, ePUB)

The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World's First Eco-Warriors

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Sensitive and engaging ... I hope everybody reads it' Brian Eno

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

With a foreword by Peter Wohlleben

How much can one love a tree? Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a community renowned for the extreme lengths they go to in order to protect nature: Bishnoi men and women have died to defend trees from loggers and wildlife from poachers.

Writer and conservationist Martin Goodman, one of few trusted outsiders, relates the history of the Bishnoi, and asks what a world facing climate change and natural disaster can learn from a 600-year-old sustainable community leading an existence in delicate balance with nature and under threat from rapacious modernity.

My Head for a Tree offers a timely reflection on indigenous, community-based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800818736
• Artikelnr.: 70457130

Autorenporträt

Martin Goodman is the author of twelve books of award-winning nonfiction and fiction, including his account of eco-lawyers saving the planet, Client Earth. Other books on India include a spiritual biography, In Search of the Divine Mother, and On Sacred Mountains. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Ram Niwas Bishnoi Budhnagar
Author’s note
Foreword by Peter Wohlleben
Amrita Devi and the 363 Martyrs
One Morning with Cranes
Bishnois versus Salman Khan
The Men Who Gave Their Lives for a Gazelle
The Birth of Guru Jambhoji
How to Live in a Megadrought
In the Land of the Great Indian Bustard
In the Animal Sanctuary
The Guru at the Wedding
The Man Who Plants Trees
How to Make a Tree Planter
Women in the City
The Massacre of the Trees
Passing Amrita Devi’s Baton
In This Together
Bishnoi Tiger Force
The Enforcer
Preparing for War
Appendix: The Twenty-nine Rules
Endnotes
Photo credits
Thanks
Index