In the Shadow of Man ANNOTATION
A classic on primate research and one of the most enthralling portrayals of animal behavior ever written.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This best-selling classic tells the story of one of the world's greatest scientific adventures. Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the wild. In the Shadow of Man is an absorbing account of her early years at Gombe Stream Reserve, telling us of the remarkable discoveries she made as she got to know the chimps and they got to know her. This paperback edition, illustrated with 80 photographs, includes an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould and a postscript by Goodall. During Goodall's forty years of studying chimpanzees, she has become one of the world's most honored scientists. She tells of the later years in THROUGH A WINDOW, also available in Mariner paperback. AFRICA IN MY BLOOD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN LETTERS tells the story, through her letters, of childhood through the early years at Gombe.
SYNOPSIS
Jane Goodall's best-selling classic of primate research is available in a new paperback edition with a postscript from the author and a new introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. In the Shadow of Man, illustrated with 80 photographs, provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of Jane Goodall's field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa. A landmark work for everyone to enjoy.
FROM THE CRITICS
"Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one of the Western world's great scientific achievements." -- Stephen Jay Gould
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Stephen Jay Gould
Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one of the Western world's great scientific achievements. — Stephen Jay Gould
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