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A Dark Place in the Jungle

Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature

A Dark Place in the Jungle( )
Author: Spalding, Linda
ISBN:978-1-56512-226-0
Publication Date:May 1999
Publisher:Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $22.95
Book Description:

In A Dark Place in the Jungle, writer Linda Spalding travels to Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of orangutan researcher Birute galdikas. What she finds is an unholy mix of foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, and half-tame orangutans. Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Formed the famed trio of "angels" Louis Leakey encouraged to study great apes in the wild In 1971, she went into the...
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Book Details
Pages:300
Detailed Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.32 x 9.4 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:1.31 Pounds
Author Biography
Spalding, Linda (Author)
Linda Spalding is a Canadian novelist & editor of "Brick." She met Riska Orpa Sari, author of "Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood," in Borneo while doing research for her acclaimed work of nonfiction, "A Dark Place in the Jungle."

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