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A Dark Place in the Jungle

By - Linda Spalding
Floor - Floor 2
Published - G.K. Hall, Thorndike, Me., 1998
ISBN 10 - 0783889674
ISBN 13 - 9780783889672
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Borneo
Shelf No - 5
Call Number - 599.8831 SPA
Physical Description - 434 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Book Information
Follow writer Linda Spalding to Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas, who together with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall formed the famed trio of angels Louis Leakey encouraged to study great apes in the wild. She went into the jungle in 1971 and emerged decades later with a run-down empire crumbling around her. Spalding confronts the sad failure of a woman trying desperately to mother a species to survival; the dangers and temptations of eco-tourism; and the arrogance of our inclination to alter the things we set out to save.

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