A Dark Place in the Jungle
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- Synopsis
- Follow writer Linda Spalding to Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas, who together with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall formed the famed trio of "angels" Louis Leakey encouraged to study great apes in the wild. She went into the jungle in 1971 and emerged decades later with a run-down empire crumbling around her. Spalding confronts the sad failure of a woman trying desperately to mother a species to survival; the dangers and temptations of eco-tourism; and the arrogance of our inclination to alter the things we set out to save.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 435 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780783889672
- Publisher:
- Thorndike Press
- Date of Addition:
- 02/12/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Linda Spalding
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Science, Animals
- Submitted By:
- Sandra Forsythe
- Proofread By:
- Julie Barrett
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.