Marginlands: A Journey into India's Vanishing Landscapes

“Marginlands is a tour de force, a magnificent first book about India’s marginalized landscapes and inhabitants, written with compassion, compressed elegance of observation, and urgent political force.”—Robert Macfarlane

As a child growing up in Mumbai, Arati Kumar—Rao’s parents instilled in her an abiding love for the natural world and a passion for storytelling. Years later, adrift in a corporate job and concerned by the unbridled development of h...