Himalayan Flowers, Trees and Animals: A Pictorial Exposition of the Natural History and Himalayan Wilderness
This pictorial book should be useful to all interested in flora and fauna of Himalayas, particularly the students, tourists or nature lovers. Those people traveling far ad wide along mountains will find it easy to carry this handy book in he major treks of Nepal. Besides illustrating a large number of the trees and flowers and animals that to be seen in the Himalayas, this book also shows the direct settings in which they are found and tells something about inter relationship of the plants with animals and the local people. Therefore this book is an important addition to current literature on the subject for it takes Himalayan natural history to a higher plane.
The first part of the book is devoted to highlight importance of Himalayan plants and flowers and their conservation issues. Second part consists of well-illustrated photographs of trees, flower and animals and their habitats to help identification in the field. The third part consists of notes and explanations of the plant pictures from different Himalayan landscapes which are carefully numbered and their local and scientific names given to help identification. A light reading through the field notes given at the end of colour plates should provide quite a bit of information of the natural history and ecology of Himalayan plants and animals. The Himalayan herbs of medicinal value are illustrated with exquisite care and accuracy. As Nepal is home to vast number of ethnic groups and communities, folk knowledge has been way of life for centuries and withstood the test of time. Therefore to understand deeply the indigenous, knowledge, culture and value addition made by herb resources in human society are of paramount importance. This book contains ore than 95%of original photographs taken in by authors.
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Sabina Shrestha
Atmaz Kumar Shrestha