Edward Pritchard Gee

[4] As a tea planter, Gee was part of a highly influential group of British landowners very close to the highest levels of provincial power.

He believed cattle had no place in a sanctuary and thought they would arouse a sense of surprise, disappointment, and revulsion in tourists who had come looking for wild animals.

[citation needed] He recommended that the Govindgarh Palace of the Maharaja of Rewa, and its white tiger inhabitants, be made a "National Trust", which didn't happen.

Gee, who had spent most of his life in India and was an authority on its wildlife, recommended creation of a national park north of the Rapti River.

In 1963, after he surveyed Chitwan again, this time for both the Fauna Preservation Society and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gee recommended extension of the national park to rhinoceros areas to the south of the river.

[6] After Independence, sensitive to the nationalism of the new Indian leadership, Gee searched for and emphasized indigenous nature conservation practices, ranging from ancient imperial edicts to village traditions of protecting nesting bird colonies.

He has sat in the open within ten feet of a lion, has fallen in front of a charging rhinoceros and he has a strange tale to tell of a bird mystery in Assam; but although it is full of good stories this is not a book of daring deeds.

– Peter Scott – The author's great experience of Indian wildlife and his superb photography render this one of the most enthralling books on natural history.