The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
Author : Harold Hayes
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN : 9780701133146
The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
Author : Harold Hayes
Publisher : Touchstone Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671742317
Book Description
Traces the remarkable life of the controversial primatologist, detailing her relationship with Louis Leakey, her stormy experiences in defending the gorillas she studied, and the circumstances surrounding her brutal, still unsolved murder
Gorillas in the Mist
Author : Dian Fossey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618083602
Book Description
Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.
In the Kingdom of Gorillas
Author : Bill Weber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0743200071
Book Description
Chronicles the attempts of the authors to protect and study the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, discussing the foundation of the Mountain Gorilla Project as well as the ecological and political situation of Rwanda.
Land of a Thousand Hills
Author : Rosamond Halsey Carr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101143517
Book Description
In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand Hills is Carr's thrilling memoir of her life in Rwanda—a love affair with a country and a people that has spanned half a century. During those years, she has experienced everything from stalking leopards to rampaging elephants, drought, the mysterious murder of her friend Dian Fossey, and near-bankruptcy. She has chugged up the Congo River on a paddle-wheel steamboat, been serenaded by pygmies, and witnessed firsthand the collapse of colonialism. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned children-work she continues to this day, at the age of eighty-seven.
Gorilla Dreams: the Legacy of Dian Fossey
Author : Georgianne Nienaber
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595820530
Book Description
Imagine that murdered primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist fame were alive today and able to reflect upon her death as well as her legacy. This is the impetus behind author Georgianne Nienaber's compelling work, Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey. At the beginning of Gorilla Dreams, Fossey attends her own funeral and watches her murdered gorillas interacting with the graveside bystanders. She establishes a new relationship with the slain gorilla Digit, who acts as her guide after death as she carefully reviews her life, its challenges, successes, hardships, and the ultimate closure of her murder. Although Fossey's death is officially unsolved, recently released documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as testimony from the International War Crimes Tribunal proceedings, offer new suspects, motives, and opportunities. Every fact about Fossey's life is meticulously annotated. However, the setting of her conversations with the murdered gorillas is obviously fictional, yet steeped in African tradition. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey is a biographical interpretation of the famed primatologist's life that honors the African belief that the dead live on in spiritual form.
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Author : Loic Dauvillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596438738
Book Description
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
Love Signals
Author : David Givens
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780312315061
Book Description
Part enthnography and part how-to manual, "Love Signals" documents the little courting rituals witnessed in elevators, on subways, and in the workplace, and examines the essential role the face plays in courtship.
White Hunters
Author : Brian Herne
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 146686754X
Book Description
Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." White Hunters re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.
Walking with the Great Apes
Author : Sy Montgomery
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1603582444
Book Description
2017 is the 50th anniversary of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars--and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild. Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good science. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and The Good Good Pig--explores the science, wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.
