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Africa in My Blood : An Autobiography in Letters
Africa in My Blood An Autobiography in Letters
Author: Jane Goodall
AFRICA IN MY BLOOD is an extraordinary self-portrait in letters of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the publication of IN THE SHADOW OF MAN, revealing this remarkable woman more vividly than anything published before, by her or about her. We see her at eleven founding the Alligator Society ("You have to be able to recognize 10 birds...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780395854044
ISBN-10: 0395854040
Publication Date: 4/15/2000
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
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Jane Goodall has long been one of my role models, as a scientist and a human being. Her letters ("precious caches, the closest thing to perfect memory". -ed.)are interspersed with commentary that links them to stages in her life, from a young girl in 1942 to her first fieldwork in 1966. Here are Flo, Flint, Melissa, Hugo and all the other chimpanzees of "her" troupe. Great reading!
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