Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316301868 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Her story is a rare combination of personal epiphany, crucial scientific discovery, and international impact - a life of human and environmental challenge. Her first son spent the early years of his life at Camp Leakey with adopted orangutans as his only playmates. Throatpouch, a huge and irritable grouch, fought off rivals for the right to claim adolescent Priscilla as his mate. Little Sugito, rescued from a cramped cage and returned to the jungle claimed Galdikas as his mother and clung to her fiercely, night and day, for months. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of ex-captive orangutans - and gradually adjusted to the blood-sucking leeches, swarms of carnivorous insects, and constant humidity that rotted her belongings in the first year. From the first, it was an adventure. A groundbreaking chronicler of the orangutans' life cycle, Galdikas also describes the threats that increasingly menace them: the battles with p
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Primatologist Galdikas's memoir of her years spent conducting the first extended study of the life of orangutans in the wild.
Monkeyshines said FABULOUS!. FABULOUS! Just wonderful. I though the book would be more like a textbook but it was a reader-friendly and beautifully told story written by an AMAZING and selfless woman who has given her life to saving the incredible orangutan. Please read her story; you won't be sorry. A beautiful life explored C. H. I bought this book on sale from Amazon online and enjoyed reading it. B. Galdikas provides powerful insight into the study of orangutans in the forests of Borneo. Although I felt that she over stressed the important metaphors she used to explain experienced conflicts and. I Wanted So Badly To Love It Andy Birute Galdikas is known by fewer people than Fossey or Goodall. However, I knew her name well when I purchased this book, as I'm a big fan of primates, great apes in particular. This was the third book exclusively about orangutans I purchased, after "The Red Ape" and "W