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Dian Fossey Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Publication Name
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Title
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 061808360X
- EAN
- 9780618083602
- ISBN
- 9780618083602
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Science
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Animals / Primates, Unexplained Phenomena, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
- Release Year
- 2000
- Release Date
- 06/10/2000
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes. Fossey's extraordinary efforts to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of this fascinating endangered species. As only she could, Fossey combined her personal adventure story with groundbreaking scientific reporting in an unforgettable portrait of one of our closest primate relatives. Although Fossey's work ended tragically in her murder, GORILLAS IN THE MIST remains an invaluable testament to one of the longest-running field studies of primates and reveals her undying passion for her subject.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
061808360x
ISBN-13
9780618083602
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038720064
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gorillas in the Mist
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Animals / Primates, Unexplained Phenomena, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql737.P96f67 2000
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Reviews
"A fascinating combination of breathtaking adventure and absolute devotion to a cause." -- Farley Mowat, "A classic of its kind." Newsweek "A fascinating combination of breathtaking adventure and absolute devotion to a cause." -- Farley Mowat, In 1963, an occupational therapist from Kentucky, in uncertain health and spirits, traveled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Dian Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong. During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behavior--so unlike the images found in popular culture. But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins, and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtful but often rightly angry memoir Gorillas in the Mist is a well-reasoned plea for the protection of the gorillas and the suppression of the poachers' black market. That argument found a wide audience when her book was published in 1983, but Fossey's work remains unfinished: she was murdered, probably by those very poachers, in 1985, and today there are fewer than 650 mountain gorillas in the wild. To read Gorillas in the Mist is a first step for anyone concerned with their preservation, and that of other wild species everywhere.
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
2001-265471
Dewey Decimal
599.88/46
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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