Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, (Paperback)

from uttara82

I borrowed Jane Goodall's Through a window: My thirty years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe on a whim when in fact, I was looking for a book by Anthony Bourdain that I could not find. I devoured the Sue Grafton I had borrowed with Goodall's book and quite reluctantly started leafing through it. I r...

from uttara82

I borrowed Jane Goodall's Through a window: My thirty years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe on a whim when in fact, I was looking for a book by Anthony Bourdain that I could not find. I devoured the Sue Grafton I had borrowed with Goodall's book and quite reluctantly started leafing through it. I r...

from Othemts

Goodall documents 30 years of her ground-breaking work with a community of chimpanzees in Gombe. It's almost like a novel of a sometimes dysfunctional family with brutal clashes and heartwarming moments. It's a great observation of animal behavior with reflections on human behavior.

from dk_phoenix

My first question was: How come I've never read any of Goodall's books before??? And my second was: Where can I get more??? What a fascinating account of Goodall's work in Gombe. I really had no idea just how complex chimpanzee society is, nor the level of intelligence these creatures retain. It'...

from LibraryCin

4.5 stars This was originally written in 1990, 30 years after Jane Goodall went to Gombe National Park in Tanzania to study chimpanzees My edition was published in 2010, so there is even extra info with a preface and an afterword written by Jane in 2009. This continues/updates her first book on t...