The ghosts of Gombe : a true story of love and death in an African wilderness / Dale Peterson.
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TextPublication details: �2018 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780520297715
- 0520297717
- Davis, Ruth, -1969
- Primatologists -- Tanzania -- Gombe National Park -- 20th century
- Biological stations -- Accidents -- Tanzania -- Gombe National Park
- Ghosts -- Tanzania -- Gombe National Park -- 20th century
- Accidents -- Psychological aspects
- Primatology -- Tanzania -- Gombe National Park -- History -- 20th century
- Chimpanzees -- Tanzania -- Gombe National Park
- Human-animal relationships -- Tanzania -- Gombe National Park -- History -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall's famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. With careful detail, The Ghosts of Gombe reveals for the first time the full story of day-to-day life in Goodall's wilderness camp--the people and the animals, the stresses and excitements, the social conflicts and cultural alignments, and the astonishing friendships that developed between three of the researchers and some of the chimpanzees--during the months preceding that tragic event. Was Ruth's death an accident? Did she jump? Was she pushed? In an extended act of literary forensics, Goodall biographer Dale Peterson examines how Ruth's death might have happened and explores some of the painful sequelae that haunted two of the survivors for the rest of their lives.
Includes index.
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--First page.
The visit (September 27, 2006) -- Beginnings (November 1967 to June 1968) -- The golden summer (June to September 1968) -- Transitions (September 1968 to March 1969) -- Love, chimpanzees, and death (March to July 1969) -- Aftermath (July 1969 to 2007).
"This book, written by the author of the "definitive" biography of primatologist Jane Goodall, presents in sweeping detail the story of a group of young volunteers and students doing animal behavior research on chimpanzees, baboons, and red colobus monkeys at Dr. Goodall's research site in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park during the late 1960s. Goodall, who began her work in the summer of 1960, was originally sponsored by the great paleontologist Louis Leakey and funded by the National Geographic Society. Her early studies of chimpanzees soon made her world famous as one of the great pioneers in primatology, and she began working to transform her original tented camp into a major field station for animal studies. Then came a tragic event that marked the final summer of that promising first decade and is the focus of this book. At around noon, on Saturday, July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American working at Gombe as a volunteer, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest and never returned. Her body was found six days later floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. The Ghosts of Gombe explores the social tensions that developed among the small community of researchers during 1968 and 1969; considers thoroughly how the death might have happened; and describes the painful personal consequences for some of the surviving researchers."--Provided by publisher.