My Head For A Tree
eBook - ePub

My Head For A Tree

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

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eBook - ePub

My Head For A Tree

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

About this book

'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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Preface by Ram Niwas Bishnoi Budhnagar
  8. Author’s note
  9. Foreword by Peter Wohlleben
  10. 1. Amrita Devi and the 363 Martyrs
  11. 2. One Morning with Cranes
  12. 3. Bishnois versus Salman Khan
  13. 4. The Men Who Gave Their Lives for a Gazelle
  14. 5. The Birth of Guru Jambhoji
  15. 6. How to Live in a Megadrought
  16. 7. In the Land of the Great Indian Bustard
  17. 8. In the Animal Sanctuary
  18. 9. The Guru at the Wedding
  19. 10. The Man who Plants Trees
  20. 11. How to Make a Tree Planter
  21. 12. Women in the City
  22. 13. The Massacre of the Trees
  23. 14. Passing Amrita Devi’s Baton
  24. 15. In This Together
  25. 16. Bishnoi Tiger Force
  26. 17. The Enforcer
  27. 18. Preparing for War
  28. Appendix: The Twenty-nine Rules
  29. Endnotes
  30. Photo credits
  31. Thanks
  32. Index