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VIRUNGA, The Passion of Dian Fossey (Misc)

Series: Misc
Genre: Other
ISBN: B000U2GB38
Pages: 448 pages
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Reader Rating: Not rated

VIRUNGA, The Passion of Dian Fossey by Farley Mowat

Description: On, December 28, 1985 after eighteen years of research in the dripping rainforests of the Virunga volcanoes in central Africa, Dian Fossey was brutally murdered. Though, not quite fifty-four years old she had lived a life as remarkable and rewarding as that of any woman of our time. Dian Fossey went to Africa at the urging of famed anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey to study one of the rarest, most mysterious animals on earth: the wild mountain gorilla. She found the great, gentle apes threatened on all sides by zoo collectors, poachers, herdsmen and scientists. Slowly, she came to understand the magnificent creatures on their own terms, to understand and admire-even to love them. She became their greatest champion-and their greatest martyr. "Virunga" is the startling true account of Dian Fossey's life as told by Canada's favorite wildlife writer, Farley Mowat. Based on Fossey's private correspondance, journals, camp records, personel papers and interviews with colleagues, friends and enemies, it is the story of one woman's inexhaustable passion for lif-and the creatures who share it with us.