Gorillas in the mist / Dian Fossey
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1983, 2000Edition: 1st Mariner books edDescription: xviii, 326 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmISBN: 061808360X; 9780618083602; 9781417619887; 1417619880Subject(s): Gorilla -- BehaviorLOC classification: QL737.P96 | F67 2000Online resources: Publisher descriptionCurrent library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 599.88/FOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500007501 |
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599.8/NOWAK Walker's primates of the world / | 599.8/PRE Primates of the world / | 599.8/ROWE The pictorial guide to the living primates / | 599.88/FOS Gorillas in the mist / | 599.884/VEDDER Gorilla mountain : the story of wildlife biologist Amy Vedder / | 599.885/FEINSTEIN The chimpanzee : help save this endangered species! / | 599.9/BUE Bog bodies / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index
1. In the Mountain Meadow of Carl Akeley and George Schaller -- 2. Second Beginning: Karisoke Research Centre, Rwanda -- 3. Karisoke Field Impressions -- 4. Three Generations of One Gorilla Family: Group 5 -- 5. Wild Orphans Bound for Captivity: Coco and Pucker -- 6. Animal Visitors to the Karisoke Research Centre -- 7. The Natural Demise of Two Gorilla Families: Groups 8 and 9 -- 8. Human Visitors to the Karisoke Research Centre -- 9. Adjustment to a New Silverback Leader: Group 4 -- 10. Growing Family Stability: Group 4 -- 11. Decimation by Poachers: Group 4 -- 12. Formation of a New Family Lends Hope: Nunkie's Group
One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes. Fossey's extraordinary efforts to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of this fascinating endangered species. As only she could, Fossey combined her personal adventure story with groundbreaking scientific reporting in an unforgettable portrait of one of our closest primate relatives. Although Fossey's work ended tragically in her murder, GORILLAS IN THE MIST remains an invaluable testament to one of the longest-running field studies of primates and reveals her undying passion for her subject
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