Through a Window

Through a Window
by Jane Goodall

Through a Window
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Author: Jane Goodall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-21
ISBN: 0618056777
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: Fascinating!
Summary: 5 Stars

Jane Goodall has said that if the chimpanzees could select a patron saint for themselves, she would be selected!

"Through a Window" is the story of wild chimpanzees, and they become as incredibly vivid as characters in a biography. They can act so human like it'll make you gasp! Love and hate, fear, bravado, jealousy and murder and even cannibalism are all there. You empathize with poor Gilka when her babies are snatched and eaten by Passion, when old Flo succumbs to old age, her teeth gone, her ears in shreds, when the alpha male Mike is dethroned by the younger Figan, when Getty perches on his mother's back, grinning with juvenile high spirits.

Goodall makes you think deeply about these creatures, whose DNA is 99% the same as ours. She writes with charm and uses vivid description. You follow the lives of the chimpanzees laid out before you in a fine biographical feast. You'll be hooked. You'll care. Highly recommended!
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THROUGH A WINDOW is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tangganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman who is their student, protector, and historian. In her classic In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she brings the story up to the present, painting a much more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relative. We see the community split in two and a brutal war break out. We watch young Figan's relentless rise to power and old Mike's crushing defeat. We learn how one mother rears her children to succeed and another dooms them to failure. We witness horrifying murders, touching moments of affection, joyous births, and wrenching deaths. In short, we see every emotion known to humans stripped to its essence. In the mirror of chimpanzee life, we see ourselves reflected. Perhaps the best book ever written about animal behavior, Through a Window is also essential reading for anyone seeking a better grasp of human behavior.

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