Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey in Stellenbosch, Western Cape for sale

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Spirituality
Soort:
Mankind
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Dr Jane Goodall is world-renowned for her work with chimpanzees and is a highly respected scientist and environmentalist. This is a spiritual autobiography that explores her beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution.;Jane Goodall takes the reader through the pivotal events of her life - her childhood in war-torn England, her relationsip with the Leakeys and her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees. In doing so she touches upon souch topics as faith and love, mysticism and science, free will and evolution and the existence of the soul and of God.
About the author (1999)
Jane Goodall, 1934 - Jane Goodall, a well-respected English zoologist, is famous for her fieldwork with chimpanzees in Africa. An early interest in African wild animals and the opportunity, at age 18, to stay on a friend's farm in Kenya, led her to Dr. Louis Leakey; then curator of the National Museum of Natural History in Nairobi. Almost immediately Leakey hired Goodall as his assistant secretary, and she was soon accompanying Leakey and his wife on their expeditions. Following Leakey's suggestion that a field study of some of the higher primates would be a major contribution to the understanding of animal behavior, she began studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1960. Although she had no undergraduate degree, Goodall earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965, based on her first five years of research at the Gombe Center. After more than 20 years of extensive study and direct contact with wild chimpanzees in their natural habitat, Goodall continues to research, teach, and write about primate behavior today.
Bibliographic information
Title Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Authors Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman
Edition illustrated, Hardback
Publisher Thorsons, 1999
ISBN 0722539282, 9780722539286
Length 282 pages
Subjects Science?Life Sciences?Zoology?Primatology