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Through a Window:

My Thirty Years With the Champanzees of Gombe
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 - Science - 268 pages
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.
  

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Review: Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

User Review  - Shane - Goodreads

Off to Africa with an anthropologist who writes well *such folks aren't all that thick on the ground* and of course Goodall is a legend in and out of the field - Stevie Nicks actually used the line of this title in the lyrics for "Jane's Song" - an homage to guess who? Read full review

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This old anthro major loved following the stories of good old Flo's descendants. Read full review

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Contents

GOMBE
1
THE MIND OF THE CHIMPANZEE
12
THE RESEARCH CENTRE
24
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
32
FIGANS RISE
43
POWER
53
CHANGE
65
GILKA
75
JOMEO
151
MELISSA
161
GIGI
178
LOVE
191
BRIDGING THE GAP
206
OUR SHAME
217
CONCLUSION
235
Some Thoughts on the Exploitation of NonHuman Animals
245

SEX
85
WAR
98
SONS AND MOTHERS
112
BABOONS
124
GOBLIN
138
Chimpanzee Conservation and Sanctuaries
251
Acknowledgments
257
Index
263
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About the author (2000)

Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey sent her to Tanzania in 1960 to study chimpanzees. She later received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and has become one of the world's most honored scientists and writers. Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees has been described by Stephen Jay Gould as "one of the Western world's great scientific achievements." Her books include the recent REASON FOR HOPE, IN THE SHADOW OF MAN, and THROUGH A WINDOW. She is the co-author with Dale Peterson of VISIONS OF CALIBAN. She resides in Tanzania.

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TitleThrough a Window: My Thirty Years With the Champanzees of Gombe
AuthorJane Goodall
Editionillustrated, reprint, reissue
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
ISBN0618056777, 9780618056774
Length268 pages
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