ABSTRACT

Recounts the lifelong struggle of the 19th-century pioneer environmental conservationist.

chapter 1|6 pages

Village headman’s son

chapter 2|7 pages

Feud in a fief

chapter 3|11 pages

Murder on a frontier

chapter 4|11 pages

‘Totchin’

chapter 5|11 pages

Democrat versus developer

chapter 6|6 pages

‘Gift of a priceless jewel’

chapter 7|13 pages

Pollution: the prelude

chapter 8|16 pages

Pollution: growth of a crisis

chapter 10|11 pages

Appeal to the Highest

chapter 11|7 pages

New directions

chapter 12|26 pages

Murder of a village

chapter 14|15 pages

‘Over withered fields’

chapter 15|8 pages

Jottings