Review Of "Jane Goodall: 40 Years At Gombe" By J. Lindsey

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Book Review

Publication Date

3-1-2000

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Choice

Abstract

Jane Goodall is the most widely recognized scientist alive today due to her scientific work, her striking autobiographical books, and the photographs and videos of her work on chimpanzees; this volume contains a bit of each of these. In its large format it displays more than 100 of the finest photographs ever seen of the chimpanzees, people, and landscape of Gombe Preserve, the site of Goodall's research. It provides a brief summary of the major results of 40 years of research on wild chimpanzee behavior. It also gives an outline of Goodall's life and especially her current efforts, through the Jane Goodall Institute, to arrest the exploitation of wild chimps and their habitat. The book will have wide appeal to nontechnical readers from middle school to adult and will be a worthwhile addition to most libraries. Libraries serving advanced undergraduate and graduate readers should first obtain Goodall's 1986 book Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (CH, Dec'86) and her autobiographical work, including the 1999 book Reason for Hope, before acquiring this attractive volume. The book is superbly produced and designed with numerous full-color photographs, a bibliography of Goodall's works, and a short index. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students.

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