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Title: The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours (Byron Preiss Book) by Jane Goodall ISBN: 0-439-21310-X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jane Goodall tells about her chimpanzees to a new generation
Comment: My father subscribed to both "National Geographic Magazine" and their related series of books, the most memorable of which was about Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees in Africa. The story of her work and the photographs of Fifi, Flo, Flint, Gremlin, David Greybeard and the rest were so enthralling. Many of those photographs, such as the one of infant Flint watching his mother Flo fish for termites and showing that man is not the only tool-using animal, are collected in "The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours," which Goodall uses to introduce her exciting work to a new generation of young readers.
When she was a child Jane Goodall decided she wanted to go to the jungles of Africa and study its animals. Today she is one of the most renowned and respected scientists on the planet, having dedicated her life and work to the study of a community of chimpanzees at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. In this fascinating book Goodall recounts her exciting adventure in making ground-breaking discoveries regarding chimpanzees and their profound similarities to human beings. She also talks about her struggle to protect this endangered species and their vanishing habitats.
Most of "The Chimpanzees I Love" looks at the Goodall's study of the generations of these chimpanzees, where we follow individual chimpanzees from babies to adulthood. Goodall provides simple descriptions of her discoveries, and often points out her own mistakes (naming her subjects was not exactly a scientific practice). Chapters are devoted to how she first made contact with and was accepted by the chimpanzees, how they communicate within their community, the relationship between mothers and babies, what a day in the forest is like, and the mind of the chimpanzees. At that point Goodall gets into the plight of the chimpanzees, including a distressing look at their lives in captivity and how they are being sold in markets in Afrcia. All of the proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to support of Goodall's international grassroots educational program, "Roots & Shoots."
"The Chimpanzees I Love" is both informative and inspirational, which is what you expect from Jane Goodall, who is one of the people who truly defined idealism for a lot of young kids in the Sixties. The idea that Flo's daughter Fifi, who was a little infant when Goodall began her studies, is now around forty years old and has had her eighth infant astounds me. But the one I miss is Flint, the first wild chimpanzee whose development was documented from birth through death, who turned out to be as much a child of the Sixties as the rest of us.
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful woman, extraordinary book
Comment: beautifully design and illustrated work by a woman who has devoted her life to chimpanzee rescue and understanding...(...)--this is for all children
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Title: The Chimpanzee Family Book (Animal Family) by Jane Goodall, Michael Neugebauer ISBN: 1558588035 Publisher: Michael Neugebauer Book Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall ISBN: 0671562711 Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Reason for Hope : A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman ISBN: 0446676136 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: With Love by Alan Marks, Jane Goodall ISBN: 1558589112 Publisher: Michael Neugebauer Book Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Jane Goodall : 40 Years at Gombe by Goodall Inst ISBN: 1556709471 Publisher: Stuart, Tabori and Chang Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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