The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
Book Details
Author(s)
Hayes, Harold T. P.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN / ASIN
0671633392
ISBN-13
9780671633394
Availability
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Sales Rank
#76,767
Category
Hardcover
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Without scientific training but with abundant determination, Dian Fossey persuaded the eminent Louis Leakey to send her to Africa to study the last remaining mountain gorillas.
Fossey, always extreme, was what you call "hands on." She virtually lived with the gorillas, slowly earning their trust. However, the closer to anthropoids, the farther from humans. More militant each year, she antagonized friends and earned enemies. In the end they killed her.
"Only the author's disciplined research, compassionate heart and inspired prose could have made us understand how one woman saved the animals that she loved so much." --Diane McMeekin, African Wildlife Foundation
