Research Catalog

Title

Beyond innocence : an autobiography in letters : the later years / Jane Goodall ; edited by Dale Peterson.

Author

Goodall, Jane, 1934-

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Peterson, Dale.

Description

xiii, 418 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "The second volume of Jane Goodall's autobiography in letters covers the years of her greatest triumphs and her deepest tragedies. During this time she made many of her most important discoveries about chimpanzee behavior - including the dark finding that they wage war and commit murder, just as humans do. She gave birth to a son, known to all as Grub, but her marriage to his father, Hugo van Lawick, came to an end.
• When some Stanford University students working with her were kidnapped by guerrillas, she was thrust into an international controversy. She fell in love with and married Derek Bryceson. After surviving a plane crash with him, she realized that her life had been entrusted to her for a particular reason. A visit to an American research laboratory where chimps were injected with HIV made that reason clear, and she began to dedicate herself not just to understanding chimpanzee behavior but to saving captive chimps as well as those in the wild.
• Derek's death was a terrible blow, but afterward she threw herself even more relentlessly into the battle to save our closest relatives and to help repair the health of the planet." "Africa in My Blood told of a young woman finding her life's work in the place of her dreams. Beyond Innocence tells of the events that shattered many of those dreams and changed Jane Goodall from a rather private observer to a public crusader."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Primatologists > Correspondence
• Goodall, Jane, 1934- > Correspondence

ISBN

0618125205

LCCN

00054124

OCLC

• ocm45463498
• SCSB-4205745

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries