After having picked up too many books at Bengaluru last month and again almost a dozen books at the Hyderabad Book Fair in the last week of December I decided not to buy books for at least a few weeks until I had read a few books in the New Year. I thought I’d just go to Abids and look around without buying anything. However, it wasn’t so because who comes back from the second-hand book market on Sundays at Abids without at least one title in hand?
So I bought just one title but that wasn’t technically at Abids but at Chikkadpally. I saw a nice copy of ‘Peregrine’ by J.A. Baker that I later noticed was a NYRB Classic with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane. I knew it was something good the moment I spotted it, and got it for just eighty rupees. Very rarely do I find books on nature and wildlife so I felt lucky finding this title.
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