Parr excellence

A photo book that chronicles this eponymous British photographer’s pit-stops in India

Tales of woe

This carefully tempered prose has it all — from Chernobyl to Yamuna — places that one would like to see in a different light

A garden lover–s delight

The colonialisation bit would have been incomplete without taking over the wild; hence the English touch to the gardens in India

Diary of a journalist

An shocking collection of essays about encounters with dacoits, eve-teasing and malnourished babies

Avian antics

Even the most commonplace fliers like crows and drongos are transformed into objects of interest by the author

Travel classic: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Rebecca West’s ability to single out the telling detail in a swatch of vastness was of great help to Samanth Subramanian as he dipped into the relevant chapters of the book while travelling in the Balkans

A pictorial biography of the Himalayas

Dilwali cites the bewitching paintings of Nicholas Roerich as his guiding principle, and some of the photographs in this collection do approximate the unearthly light and sudden transcendence of Roerich–s best work

Butterfly collector

Dangerous terrains or extreme weather could not stop the author from chasing the ephemeral butterflies

Of past and present

The author–s pleasant memories of old Calcutta is often interrupted by the city–s current dead and challenging nature

Incredible Africa

National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz captures the stunning landscapes and wildlife of Africa from a motorised paraglier