{"product_id":"walking-with-the-great-apes-isbn-9781603580625","title":"Walking with the Great Apes","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery–acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of an Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Good Good Pig–\u003c\/i\u003eexplores the science, wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars–and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good science.\"This is a book about how love--the power that moves us beyond us and our own self interest to form relationships with an 'other'--can transform lives and worlds.... Author Montgomery brings an admirable grace and kindness to her treatment of the three women's lives and work, affording them, in many ways, the same dignity and respect they offered to the animals they observed and card for so deeply.... It is worth reading simply as expert storytelling, animated by particular and passionate writing.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCape Cod Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eResearching articles, films, and her twenty-one books for adults and children, bestselling author \u003cb\u003eSy Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels, and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) Her books for adults include \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of an Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e (a National Book Award finalist), \u003ci\u003eThe Good Good Pig, Birdology, Spell of the Tiger, Journey of the Pink Dolphins, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Walking with the Great Apes\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, their border collie, Thurber, and their flock of free-range laying hens.","brand":"Chelsea Green","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233826156773,"sku":"NP9781603580625","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781603580625.jpg?v=1767743568","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/walking-with-the-great-apes-isbn-9781603580625","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}