Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe [Signed 1st Printing w/ Ephemera]

Goodall, Jane [b. 1934]

ISBN 10: 0395500818 / ISBN 13: 9780395500811

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990

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1st printing of the first American hardcover in the Canadian export jacket and SIGNED by the author on the title page with a blue ballpoint pen. LAID-IN is a bookmark produced for the Jane Goodall Institute in Ottawa which includes a quote from Jane Goodall, "Only when we understand/ can we care./ Only when we care/ will we help./ Only if we help/ shall they be saved," and a line drawing of one of Goodall's named Chimps - David Graybeard. Tan paper boards with grass green cloth binding and white endpapers. The corners of the boards are sharp. Foxing to the exposed page edges and the top edges of both boards but not to the text. Slight spine roll. The Canadian jacket produced by Thomas Allen replaced the Houghton-Mifflin original to include the statement that $1 of the purchase price would be donated to the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada. It is bright, crisp, price intact and bears the same ISBN as the book. Foxing is visible on the reverse side. There is a crescent-shaped crease in the top edge of the front panel, next to the spine edge. Canadian buyer will be charged GST. N° de réf. du vendeur 002540

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Titre : Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the ...

Éditeur : Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Date d'édition : 1990

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Book by Goodall Jane

Présentation de l'éditeur:

THROUGH A WINDOW is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tangganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman who is their student, protector, and historian. In her classic In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she brings the story up to the present, painting a much more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relative. We see the community split in two and a brutal war break out. We watch young Figan's relentless rise to power and old Mike's crushing defeat. We learn how one mother rears her children to succeed and another dooms them to failure. We witness horrifying murders, touching moments of affection, joyous births, and wrenching deaths. In short, we see every emotion known to humans stripped to its essence. In the mirror of chimpanzee life, we see ourselves reflected. Perhaps the best book ever written about animal behavior, Through a Window is also essential reading for anyone seeking a better grasp of human behavior.