Jane Goodall

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees—intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear...

The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).
 
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.
 
On the shores of Lake

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Friendly, curious Pangolina—a member of the only mammalian species with scales—spends a blissful babyhood being cared for by her loving mother. As a pangolin, though, she is in danger as she grows up and ventures out alone into the forest, because her scales are prized by humans who believe they have curative powers.
One day cruel hunters trap Pangolina, putting her into a cage along with her animal friends, and bringing them to a...