The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with the Kings and Elephant Drivers, Bureaucrats and Scientists, and the Indian Rhinoceros

Hemanta Mishra and Jim Ottaway Jr

Penguin

256 pages with 8 pages of illustrations, R299

“Ugly yet enchanting, terrifying yet delicate, the Indian Rhinoceros is a magnificent animal. It is also in danger of being killed off for good.” This is an account of Mishra’s four-decade long battle in the foothills of the Himalayas to save the rhino, a creature threatened by armed insurgents, political violence and poaching. A bittersweet book about the labyrinths of South Asian wildlife conservation and one man’s endurance in the face of it all.