Author: George B. Schaller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226736474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Congo-Rwanda-Uganda border.
The Year of the Gorilla
Author: George B. Schaller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226736474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Congo-Rwanda-Uganda border.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226736474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Congo-Rwanda-Uganda border.
Gorillas Among Us
Author: Dawn Prince-Hughes
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816521500
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Chronicles the days of a gorilla family, offering insight into their diet, communication, behavior, and recreation, provoking human introspection.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816521500
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Chronicles the days of a gorilla family, offering insight into their diet, communication, behavior, and recreation, provoking human introspection.
A Forest in the Clouds
Author: John Fowler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681776995
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas. In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the adventure and promise of learning the science of studying mountain gorillas amid the beauty of Central Africa’s cloud forest, Fowler soon learns the cold harsh realities of life inside Fossey’s enclave ten thousand feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she brings new students in to serve her most pressing need—to hang on to the remote research camp that has become her mountain home. Increasingly bizarre behavior has targeted Fossey for extrication by an ever-growing group of detractors—from conservation and research organizations to the Rwandan government. Amid the turmoil, Fowler must abandon his own research assignments to assuage the troubled Fossey as she orders him on illegal treks across the border into Zaire, over volcanoes, in search of missing gorillas, and to serve as surrogate parent to an orphaned baby ape in preparation for its traumatic re-introduction into a wild gorilla group. This riveting story is the only first-person account from inside Dian Fossey’s beleaguered camp. Fowler must come to grips with his own aspirations, career objectives, and disappointments as he develops the physical endurance to keep up with mountain gorillas over volcanic terrain in icy downpours above ten thousand feet, only to be affronted by the frightening charges of indignant giant silverbacks or to be treed by aggressive forest buffalos. Back in camp, he must nurture the sensitivity and patience needed for the demands of rehabilitating an orphaned baby gorilla. A Forest in the Clouds takes the armchair adventurer on a journey into an extraordinary world that now only exists in the memories of the very few who knew it.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681776995
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas. In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the adventure and promise of learning the science of studying mountain gorillas amid the beauty of Central Africa’s cloud forest, Fowler soon learns the cold harsh realities of life inside Fossey’s enclave ten thousand feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she brings new students in to serve her most pressing need—to hang on to the remote research camp that has become her mountain home. Increasingly bizarre behavior has targeted Fossey for extrication by an ever-growing group of detractors—from conservation and research organizations to the Rwandan government. Amid the turmoil, Fowler must abandon his own research assignments to assuage the troubled Fossey as she orders him on illegal treks across the border into Zaire, over volcanoes, in search of missing gorillas, and to serve as surrogate parent to an orphaned baby ape in preparation for its traumatic re-introduction into a wild gorilla group. This riveting story is the only first-person account from inside Dian Fossey’s beleaguered camp. Fowler must come to grips with his own aspirations, career objectives, and disappointments as he develops the physical endurance to keep up with mountain gorillas over volcanic terrain in icy downpours above ten thousand feet, only to be affronted by the frightening charges of indignant giant silverbacks or to be treed by aggressive forest buffalos. Back in camp, he must nurture the sensitivity and patience needed for the demands of rehabilitating an orphaned baby gorilla. A Forest in the Clouds takes the armchair adventurer on a journey into an extraordinary world that now only exists in the memories of the very few who knew it.
Growing Up Gorilla
Author: Clare Hodgson Meeker
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1541542401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"This heartwarming true story chronicles what happened after a mother gorilla gave birth for the first time and then walked away from her newborn baby at Seattle's Woodland Park. The dedicated staff worked tirelessly to find innovative ways for mother and baby to build a relationship. The efforts were ultimately successful, as baby Yola bonded with her mother and the rest of the family group."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1541542401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"This heartwarming true story chronicles what happened after a mother gorilla gave birth for the first time and then walked away from her newborn baby at Seattle's Woodland Park. The dedicated staff worked tirelessly to find innovative ways for mother and baby to build a relationship. The efforts were ultimately successful, as baby Yola bonded with her mother and the rest of the family group."--Publisher's description.
Good Night, Gorilla (Oversized Lap Board Book)
Author: Peggy Rathmann
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399242600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This roomy trim size is perfect for sharing with groups and lap sitters, and will stand up to years of repeat readings.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399242600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This roomy trim size is perfect for sharing with groups and lap sitters, and will stand up to years of repeat readings.
Little Gorilla
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780899194219
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Little Gorilla's family and friends try to help him overcome his special growing pains.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780899194219
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Little Gorilla's family and friends try to help him overcome his special growing pains.
Go-Go Gorillas
Author: Julia Durango
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141693779X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Something's going down at the Gorilla Villa, and King Big Daddy wants all the gorillas at the villa. Pronto! So gorillas on scooters and pogo sticks and even hot-air balloons have go to go-go gorillas or they'll miss the big surprise!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141693779X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Something's going down at the Gorilla Villa, and King Big Daddy wants all the gorillas at the villa. Pronto! So gorillas on scooters and pogo sticks and even hot-air balloons have go to go-go gorillas or they'll miss the big surprise!
The Boy and the Gorilla
Author: Jackie Azúa Kramer
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536246212
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss. On the day of his mother’s funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see: a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy hesitates to ask his father: Where did his mother go? Will she come back home? Will we all die? Yet with the gorilla’s friendship, the boy slowly begins to discover moments of comfort in tending flowers, playing catch, and climbing trees. Most of all, the gorilla knows that it helps to simply talk about the loss—especially with those who share your grief and who may feel alone, too. Author Jackie Azúa Kramer’s quietly thoughtful text and illustrator Cindy Derby’s beautiful impressionistic artwork depict how this tender relationship leads the boy to open up to his father and find a path forward. Told entirely in dialogue, this direct and deeply affecting picture book will inspire conversations about grief, empathy, and healing beyond the final hope-filled scene.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536246212
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss. On the day of his mother’s funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see: a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy hesitates to ask his father: Where did his mother go? Will she come back home? Will we all die? Yet with the gorilla’s friendship, the boy slowly begins to discover moments of comfort in tending flowers, playing catch, and climbing trees. Most of all, the gorilla knows that it helps to simply talk about the loss—especially with those who share your grief and who may feel alone, too. Author Jackie Azúa Kramer’s quietly thoughtful text and illustrator Cindy Derby’s beautiful impressionistic artwork depict how this tender relationship leads the boy to open up to his father and find a path forward. Told entirely in dialogue, this direct and deeply affecting picture book will inspire conversations about grief, empathy, and healing beyond the final hope-filled scene.
Gorillas in Our Midst
Author: Richard Fairgray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775433613
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
You never know when there might be a gorilla around... Gorillas can be hard to spot, because they are masters of disguise and good at hiding. You will know when there are gorillas living in your midst because the grocery stores will be entirely out of bananas. In fact, you should always carry a banana with you-you never know when you might meet a gorilla!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775433613
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
You never know when there might be a gorilla around... Gorillas can be hard to spot, because they are masters of disguise and good at hiding. You will know when there are gorillas living in your midst because the grocery stores will be entirely out of bananas. In fact, you should always carry a banana with you-you never know when you might meet a gorilla!
Go Go Gorillas
Author: Patrick Wensink
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062381187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ever wonder who the life of the safari is? It's go-go-gorillas! All safari guide Jungle Jed wants is for the gorillas to go to sleep, but after they brush their teeth and comb their fur, it's an all-out jungle boogie, complete with baby gorilla doing the robot. Brought to life with colorful and dynamic illustrations by Nate Wragg and bouncy text by Patrick Wensink, Go Go Gorillas is the perfect read-aloud. Fans of Giraffes Can’t Dance will giggle along at the silly antics of these not-so-sleepy gorillas in this lively, rhyming bedtime tale.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062381187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ever wonder who the life of the safari is? It's go-go-gorillas! All safari guide Jungle Jed wants is for the gorillas to go to sleep, but after they brush their teeth and comb their fur, it's an all-out jungle boogie, complete with baby gorilla doing the robot. Brought to life with colorful and dynamic illustrations by Nate Wragg and bouncy text by Patrick Wensink, Go Go Gorillas is the perfect read-aloud. Fans of Giraffes Can’t Dance will giggle along at the silly antics of these not-so-sleepy gorillas in this lively, rhyming bedtime tale.