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Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters The Later Years
This second volume of Jane Goodall’s autobiography in letters covers the years of her greatest triumphs and her deepest tragedies. During this time she made many of her most important discoveries about chimpanzee behavior — including the dark discovery that like us, they wage war and commit murder. She gave birth to a son, Grub, but her marriage to his father, Hugo van Law
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432 pages
Published
July 12th 2001
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Jane Goodall has been a heroine of mine for 50+ years. Her dedication and discipline in studying chimpanzees, and especially her efforts to change how captive ones are used and treated, has been a huge inspiration to me. This book of letters showed me a more intimate side of Goodall that I wasn't aware of, but totally enjoyed.
Her insistence on maintaining strong and frequent epistolary communication with family, friends and colleagues is amazing and commendable. The peek into personal life and s ...more
Her insistence on maintaining strong and frequent epistolary communication with family, friends and colleagues is amazing and commendable. The peek into personal life and s ...more
This is the second volume of Jane Goodall's letters. I liked this book, but less than the first volume. This dealt less with the chimps and more with her work as a lecturer and animal supporter, so the letters are a little less interesting. Also, these letters seem to skip around more so the chronology was hard for me to follow sometimes. There were some life events that I would have liked to more about, but were just touched on.
All in all, she is one impressive lady. Wish I could be more like h ...more
All in all, she is one impressive lady. Wish I could be more like h ...more
I'm sure that Jane Goodall's life story is fascinating, but I just could not get into the style this book was written in. I found the reading of all of her letters to various people too tedious to read. I would rather read a good biography without all the letters.
couldn't finish. did not like the way Goodall interfered with her experiments by inoculating, putting out of misery , etc. did not like format where author told you the story then repeated the story through letters
Though I admire Jane Goodall greatly, I'm not much of chimp fan. Not enough about Africa to keep me ienterested.
Such an amazing woman.
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Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall), is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute an
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