Author Description

M. Krishnan combines in himself the threefold qualities of naturalist, artist and writer and, in the thirty-four nature studies assembled here under birds and beasts, pets and livestock, guests and contenants, herbs, shrubs and trees, he catches in his prose, as in his drawings pulsing with life, a singular purity and grace and an evocative beauty. He is excited and delighted with whatever subject he takes up for investigation, with his capacity to stand still and stare he passes on his excitement and delight to others towards the realization of a fuller relationship of man with the varied and wonderful world around him. Jungle and Backyard is a book of absorbing interest, packed with information of a kind that is not readily available anywhere.