In search of hope

Goodall is an outstanding English primatologist, the world's best chimpanzee expert. Back in 1960, when she was twenty-six, she left England to pursue her cherished dream of studying animals in Africa. With no education or training, just a notebook, binoculars and a love of wildlife, Goodall gave the world a thorough knowledge of man's closest relatives. She was the first to describe chimpanzees as emotional creatures capable of maintaining long-term relationships.

In Search of Hope is an autobiographical book that takes the reader from Goodall's home in London to the Gombe rainforests of western Tanzania and a time when the world knew very little about chimpanzees and even less about their genetic relationship to humans. The author speaks with touching sincerity about the unforgettable moment when a small chimpanzee gently shook her hand for the first time, about the horror of the Zairian rebels' attack on her students, about the sadness over the death of her husband. After half a century of revolutionary research, Goodall rethinks the relationship between humans and nature...