Published by Houghton Mifflin; McClelland and Stewart; Little Brown, Boston and Toronto, 1990
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Editions. (xiv, viii) 268, 380, 408 pp. Through a Window and Virunga are both first editions; Reflections is a first soft cover in trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners; prices intact; no interior markings and Reflections has some minor creasing on the spine. The full titles are: Through a Window - My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall; Virunga - The Passion of Dian Fossey by Farley Mowat (known in the United States as Woman in the Mists); and Reflections of Eden - My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo. Sometimes known as the Trimates, sometimes as Leakey's Girls and often called Leakey's Angels, these three women were selected by anthropologist Louis Leakey, to study hominids in their natural environments, first, chimpanzees by Jane Goodall, then gorillas by Dian Fossey and finally, orang-utans by Birute M. F. Galdikas. Two of them went to Africa, where Dian Fossey was murdered by some disgusting coward, and the third, Galdikas, went to Borneo. Size: 8vo. Book.