My Life with the Chimpanzees

Name: My Life with the Chimpanzees
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jane Goodall
ISBN: 9781594834387

Author: Jane Goodall

Narrator: Jane Goodall

Abridged: 2 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 11/01/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Memoirs

Synopsis

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees -- intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear a surprising resemblance to our own.

About Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey sent her to Tanzania in 1960 to study chimpanzees. She later received a PhD from Cambridge University and has become one of the world's most honored scientists and writers. Her books include Reason for Hope, In the Shadow of Man, and Through a Window.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on January 26, 2024

A book that attracts readers like bees to honey My Life with the Chimpanzees is a short autobiography by Jane Goodall. Ms. Goodall was born in London on April 3, 1934, survived the horrors of World War II, and in 1960 began studying chimpanzees in the wild in Tanzania. The cover art for this book loo......more

Goodreads review by Deb✨ on February 18, 2022

I loved hearing Jane Goodall narrate this audiblebook, basically it's her autobiography of her life growing up, and then finally reaching her dream of going to Africa and being able to research the Chimpanzees as well as other wildlife along the way. As always, she talks of hope for the future among......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 31, 2016

This book was a great read because it let you into the wonderful world of Chimpanzees! It was interesting to learn so many things about chimps throughout the book and to hear about Jane's adventures. Before reading this book I knew that Chimpanzees were very similar to humans, but I didn't know very......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on January 19, 2016

For as long as I can remember, I have admired Jane Goodall and her amazing work with chimpanzees, etc. I have read quite a few of her books - This biography reads so quickly and I got lost (in a good way) about what she gave up and what she gained by living among and being accepted by the chimpanzees......more