Author: Harold Hayes
Publisher: Touchstone Books
ISBN: 9780671742317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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
The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
Author: Harold Hayes
Publisher: Touchstone Books
ISBN: 9780671742317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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
Publisher: Touchstone Books
ISBN: 9780671742317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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
In the Kingdom of Gorillas
Author: Bill Weber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743200071
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743200071
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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.
Gorillas in the Mist
Author: Dian Fossey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618083602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618083602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.
Gorilla Dreams: the Legacy of Dian Fossey
Author: Georgianne Nienaber
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595820530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595820530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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.
The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
Author: Harold Hayes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552138796
Category : Gorilla
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552138796
Category : Gorilla
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Land of a Thousand Hills
Author: Rosamond Halsey Carr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101143517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101143517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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.
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Author: Loic Dauvillier
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596438738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596438738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
The Dark Continent?
Author: Frits Andersen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN: 8771248544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture--with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congo reform movement--the first international human rights movement--spread horror stories that still have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies, reports and novels, from Stanley's travelogues and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Herge's Tintin and Burroughs' Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The Dark Continent? proposes that the West's attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid and intervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative forms that have evolved since 1870.
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN: 8771248544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture--with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congo reform movement--the first international human rights movement--spread horror stories that still have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies, reports and novels, from Stanley's travelogues and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Herge's Tintin and Burroughs' Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The Dark Continent? proposes that the West's attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid and intervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative forms that have evolved since 1870.
Madness Under the Royal Palms
Author: Laurence Leamer
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401395554
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's Mar-a-Lago. For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has been an exclusive and exotic universe of wealth and privilege in America. And until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated its eternally sunny world, the reality of this affluent enclave has rarely been exposed to outsiders. Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms, resident insider Laurence Leamer reveals the secrets and scandals of this South Florida island via a cast of characters that includes social climbers, trophy wives, sugar daddies, glamorous widows and their "escorts," sociopathic multimillionaires, and elegant society queens. Dive into the unbelievable true story of love, lust, money, and murder in a uniquely American paradise.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401395554
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's Mar-a-Lago. For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has been an exclusive and exotic universe of wealth and privilege in America. And until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated its eternally sunny world, the reality of this affluent enclave has rarely been exposed to outsiders. Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms, resident insider Laurence Leamer reveals the secrets and scandals of this South Florida island via a cast of characters that includes social climbers, trophy wives, sugar daddies, glamorous widows and their "escorts," sociopathic multimillionaires, and elegant society queens. Dive into the unbelievable true story of love, lust, money, and murder in a uniquely American paradise.
A Dark Place in the Jungle
Author: Linda Spalding
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565122260
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Recounts Spalding's journey to locate Birute Galdikas in Borneo's threatened jungles, where Galdikas has been working to study and protect the endangered orangutans
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565122260
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Recounts Spalding's journey to locate Birute Galdikas in Borneo's threatened jungles, where Galdikas has been working to study and protect the endangered orangutans