A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo - Brossura

Spalding, Linda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1580051014 ISBN 13: 9781580051019

Casa editrice: Seal Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Birute Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, form the famed trio of ?angels” Louis Leakey trained to study great apes in the wild. While Fossey studied the gorilla and Goodall the chimpanzee, Galdikas went to Borneo to study the orangutan and, decades later, emerged as a complicated figure, embroiled in scandal. Spalding’s quest to know this woman takes her from the offices of Galdikas’s foundation in Los Angeles to the Sekonyer River in Borneo, where she discovers a beguiling cast of characters. A host of foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of the Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, and half-tame orangutans all vie for control of this despoiled Eden. Dark Place in the Jungle is an absorbing rumination on the failure of a woman trying desperately to mother a species to survival, the dangers and temptations of eco-tourism, and the arrogance of our inclination to alter the very things we set out to preserve. 30 black-and-white photographs are featured in this revealing and fascinating journey.

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• Editore: Seal Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1580051014
• ISBN 13: 9781580051019
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296