IN THE SHADOW OF MAN (Revised Edition)

Goodall, Jane; (Jay Gould, Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0618056769 / ISBN 13: 9780618056767

Published by Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1988

About this Item

BRAND NEW Copy. First published 1971; this is the 2nd Printing of the Revised Edition of 1988. An account of the early years British primatologist and foremost expert on chimapanzees Jane Morris Goodall (1934 -) spent in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Illustrated w/some 80 photographs, this edition carries a postscript by Goodall.

Seller Inventory # 009808

Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN THE SHADOW OF MAN (Revised Edition)
• Publisher: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618056769
• ISBN 13: 9780618056767
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Hugo van Lawick (Photographer)
• Edition: Revised Editon, 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature, Ecology, Conservation
  • Natural History

About this title

Synopsis

This best-selling classic tells the story of one of the world's greatest scientific adventures. Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the wild. In the Shadow of Man is an absorbing account of her early years at Gombe Stream Reserve, telling us of the remarkable discoveries she made as she got to know the chimps and they got to know her. This paperback edition, illustrated with 80 photographs, includes an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould and a postscript by Goodall.
During Goodall's forty years of studying chimpanzees, she has become one of the world's most honored scientists. She tells of the later years in THROUGH A WINDOW, also available in Mariner paperback. AFRICA IN MY BLOOD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN LETTERS tells the story, through her letters, of childhood through the early years at Gombe.

About the Author

Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey sent her to Tanzania in 1960 to study chimpanzees. She later received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and has become one of the world's most honored scientists and writers. Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees has been described by Stephen Jay Gould as "one of the Western world's great scientific achievements." Her books include the recent REASON FOR HOPE, IN THE SHADOW OF MAN, and THROUGH A WINDOW. She is the co-author with Dale Peterson of VISIONS OF CALIBAN. She resides in Tanzania.