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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo, Library Edition
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo, Library Edition
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from paperloverevolution
When I picked this book up out of a pile of Advance Reading Copies, I had only a vague idea of what a Bonobo was, and an even vaguer grasp of what was happening in Congo. I'd heard plenty of news reports about atrocities, but, I'm sorry to admit, the who and the why confused me. Vanessa Woods not...
from mcelhra
I picked this book up because I wanted to learn more about bonobos after reading Sara Gruen's Ape House. Bonobo Handshake is a memoir about the author's time in Congo working at a bonobo sanctuary. Like chimps and humans, bonobos and humans share almost 99 percent of their DNA - yet hardly anyone...
from bookwoman247
When Vanessa Woods met and fell in love with primatologist Brian Hare she had no idea that she would follow him to the Congo and also fall in love with bonobos. This book is fascinating on so many levels. It's such a cliché to say that by looking at our closest relatives we learn about ourselves,...
from LibraryCin
The author was young and didn't really know what she wanted to do with herself beyond have adventures. She met her fiancee, Brian, at a chimpanzee sanctuary and he convinced her to come with him to Congo to do some research on bonobos, a type of chimp. The book includes memoir of her and Brian + ...
from tjsjohanna
If you are looking for a feel-good book about animals, this is not it. There are numerous descriptions of the violence that abounds in the Congo (and in the animal research business and even in chimpanzee communities). Yet that violence is the very reason that Ms. Woods argues for learning more a...
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