Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man » (Reprint)

Dale Peterson is the coauthor with Jane Goodall of Visions of Caliban (a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Book) and the editor of her two books of letters, Africa in My Blood and Beyond Innocence. His other books include The Deluge and the Ark, Chimpanzee Travels, Storyville USA, Eating Apes, and (with Richard Wrangham) Demonic Males. They have been distinguished as an Economist Best Book, a Discover Top Science Book, a Bloomsbury Review Editor's Favorite, a Village Voice Best Book, and a finalist for the PEN New England Award and the Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize in England. He resides in Massachusetts.

This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall’s accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first sent her to Gombe to study chimpanzees. In this acclaimed work, Dale Peterson details how this young woman of uncommon resourcefulness and pluck would go on to set radically new standards in the study of animal behavior. He vividly captures the triumphs and setbacks of her dramatic life, including the private quest that led to her now-famous activism.

Peterson, a longtime Goodall collaborator, has a unique knowledge of his subject. Candid and illuminating, this work will be a revelation even to readers who are familiar with the public Goodall as presented in her own writing.

The New York Times - Deborah Blum

… the biography transcends its rather awestruck beginning and grows, detail by detail, into an absorbing portrait. At its best, it provides a remarkable account of what a person can accomplish through courage and self-sacrifice and a reminder of how few of us are willing to commit our lives to such an extent. Whether Goodall really redefined man, as the book s subtitle asserts, may be open to debate, but there s no doubt that she powerfully redefined the way we see our fellow primates.

Prologue ix

Part I: The Naturalist 1. Daddy’s Machine, Nanny’s Garden • 1930–1939 3 2. War and a Disappearing Father • 1939–1951 19 3. A Child’s Peace • 1940–1945 29 4. Child in the Trees • 1940–1951 38 5. Childhood’s End • 1951–1952 53 6. Dream Deferred • 1952–1956 67 7. Dream Returned • 1956–1957 81 8. Africa! • 1957 92 9. Olduvai • 1957 107 10. Love and Other Complications • 1957–1958 122 11. The Menagerie • 1958 134 12. London Interlude • 1959–1960 149 13. Lolui Island and the Road to Gombe • 1960 167 14. Summer in Paradise • 1960 179 15. David’s Gift • 1960 194 16. Primates and Paradigms • 1960–1962 212 17. The Magical and the Mundane • 1960–1961 229 18. A Photographic Failure • 1961 245 19. A Different Language • 1961–1962 261

Part II: The Scientist 20. First Scientifi c Conferences • 1962 281 21. A Photographic Success • 1962 295 22. Intimate Encounters • 1963 313 23. Love and Romance, Passion and Marriage • 1963–1964 332 24. Babies and Bananas • 1964 343 25. A Permanent Research Center • 1964–1965 354 26. Gombe from Afar • 1965 372 27. A Peripatetic Dr. van Lawick and the Paleolithic Vulture• 1966–1967 387 28. Epidemic • 1966–1967 403 29. Grublin • 1967 415 30. Promise and Loss • 1968–1969 431 31. Hugo’s Book • 1967–1970 449 32. Regime Changes • 1970–1972 465 33. Abundance, Estrangement, and Death • 1972 484 34. Friends, Allies, and Lovers • 1973 503 35. Things Fall Down — and Sometimes Apart • 1974 523 36. Domesticity and Disaster • 1975 541 37. A New Normal • 1975–1980 562 38. Picking Up the Pieces • 1980–1986 581

Part III: The Activist 39. Well-Being in a Cage • 1986–1991 601 40. Orphans, Children, and Sanctuaries • 1986–1995 619 41. Circumnavigations • 1996–2000 639 42. Messages • 2000–2003 652 43. Woman Leaping Forward • 2003–2004 670 Notes 689 Works Cited 704 Acknowledgments 712 Index 715