The Ghosts of Gombe
Title | The Ghosts of Gombe PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peterson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2018-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520969960 |
On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. With careful detail, The Ghosts of Gombe reveals for the first time the full story of day-to-day life in Goodall’s wilderness camp—the people and the animals, the stresses and excitements, the social conflicts and cultural alignments, and the astonishing friendships that developed between three of the researchers and some of the chimpanzees—during the months preceding that tragic event. Was Ruth’s death an accident? Did she jump? Was she pushed? In an extended act of literary forensics, Goodall biographer Dale Peterson examines how Ruth’s death might have happened and explores some of the painful sequelae that haunted two of the survivors for the rest of their lives.
Jane Goodall
Title | Jane Goodall PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peterson |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 772 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780547053561 |
Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. This biography details how Goodall helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior.
Elephant Reflections
Title | Elephant Reflections PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peterson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 749 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520942949 |
Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of control over their fate.
Eating Apes
Title | Eating Apes PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peterson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520243323 |
Annotation As Jane Goodall never fails to mention, "bush meat is the greatest conservation crisis in my lifetime." This book documents in text and photographs how wild animals in the Congo Basin, particularly the Great Apes but also chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are slaughtered and used for human consumption.
In the Shadow of Man
Title | In the Shadow of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Goodall |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2010-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0297865374 |
'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal classic' TIME Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa. It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy.
The Moral Lives of Animals
Title | The Moral Lives of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peterson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2012-06-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1608193462 |
Examines the moral behavior observed in animals and argues that human beings are not the only species to live by the principles of cooperation, kindness, and empathy.
Introduction to California Birdlife
Title | Introduction to California Birdlife PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Evens |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 395 |
Release | 2005-04-07 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520242548 |
An introduction to the behavior and natural history of California's birds, organized by their habitats.