Author : Harold Hayes
Publisher : Touchstone Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671742317
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
Author : Camilla De la Bédoyère
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Drawing on her previously unpublished letters, this deeply personal and illuminating portrait of preservationist Dian Fossey is accompanied by dazzling, full-color photographs by Campbell, who spent nearly four years making a visual journal of Fossey's work.
Author : Dian Fossey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618083602
Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.
Author : Bill Weber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0743200071
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.
Author : Rosamond Halsey Carr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101143517
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.
Author : Harold Hayes
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN : 9780701133146
Author : Loic Dauvillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596438738
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
Author : Georgianne Nienaber
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595820530
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.
Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0914671049
Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga’s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents’ preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country’s mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, prejudice, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling towards horror.
Author : Osa Johnson
Publisher : Vertical Inc
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1568366000
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a ‘round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene’s big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it’s a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure.
