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