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Woman in the Mists
The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
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Artikel-Nr:
9780446387200
Veröffentl:
1988
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.11.1988
Seiten:
416
Autor:
Farley Mowat
Gewicht:
672 g
Format:
229x152x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Farley Mowat (1921-2014), a famed Canadian writer, was the author of forty-five books, including fiction, history, and environmental works. Several of his books, including Never Cry Wolf, were made into films. Mowat was a winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature, and also a recipient of the Order of Canada and an inductee of the Canadian Walk of Fame. Lee Windsor is Deputy Director of The Brigadier Milton Gregg VC Centre for the Study of War and Society and holds the Fredrik S. Eaton Chair in Canadian Army Studies at the University of New Brunswick.
Deep in the volcano country of central Africa live some of the rarest, most intriguing animals on earth -- the mountain gorillas. Here, in the mist-shrouded forests, Dian Fossey courageously dedicated her life to studying them. Here she patiently waited until the luminous-eyed gorillas accepted her presence, hugged her, and loved her...while she fought for their survival against poachers, callous researchers, zoo collectors, and local bureaucrats. And here, surrounded by these enemies, she died, mysteriously and brutally murdered.Now, one of the world's most respected naturalist writers draws for the first time ever on Dian Fossey's personal writings to reveal the true story of a magnificent obsession...one woman's enormous empathy for a highly intelligent, desperately endangered animal -- and how it ruled her life, her work, and her heart.