Jane Goodall b. 1934
World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and
humanitarian Jane Goodall studied our cousins, chimpanzees, for forty years
becoming one of the world's most honoured scientists. Goodall was a young
secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to
undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the wild. She has provided an
absorbing account of her early years at Gombe Stream Reserve, telling us of the
remarkable discoveries she made as she got to know the chimps and they got to
know her. In the Shadow of Man tells the story of one of the world's greatest
scientific adventures. Equipped with little more than a notebook, binoculars,
and her fascination with wildlife, Goodall braved a realm of unknowns to give
the world a remarkable window into humankind’s closest living relatives.
Read In the Shadow of Man (1971) Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
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