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Beyond Innocence; An Autobiography In Letters; The Later Years - 1st

Beyond Innocence; An Autobiography In Letters; The Later Years - 1st Edition/1st Printing Hardcover - 2001

by Goodall, Jane [; Dale Peterson, editor]

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Boston New York: Houghton and Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0618125205 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally Fine dust-jacket, minor traces of edge-wear; The second volume and continuation of her autobiography in letters, following the 2000 publication of Africa in my Blood. According to her, this includes the years of her greatest triumphs, her deepest tragedies, as well as her most important discoveries about chimpanzee behavior, including the dark finding that they wage war and commit murder, just as human do; 8vo; xiv, 418 pages .
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This second volume of Jane Goodall’s autobiography in letters covers the years of her greatest triumphs and her deepest tragedies. During this time she made many of her most important discoveries about chimpanzee behavior — including the dark discovery that like us, they wage war and commit murder. She gave birth to a son, Grub, but her marriage to his father, Hugo van Lawick, came to an end. When some Stanford University students working with her were kidnapped by guerrillas, she was thrust into an international controversy. She fell in love with and married Derek Bryceson. After surviving a plane crash with him, she realized that her life had been entrusted to her for a reason. A visit to an American laboratory where chimps were injected with HIV made that reason clear, and she began to dedicate herself not just to understanding chimpanzees but to saving them. Derek’s death in 1980 was a terrible blow, but afterward she threw herself even more relentlessly into the battle to save our closest relatives and to repair the health of the planet.
AFRICA IN MY BLOOD told of a young woman finding her life’s work in the place of her dreams. BEYOND INNOCENCE tells of the events that shattered many of those dreams and changed her from a rather private observer to a public crusader.

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IN LATE JULY 1966, Jane Goodall and Hugo van Lawick, along with Hugo's brother Michael and two African assistants, Benjamen and Philip, set out from Nairobi in two vehicles on a photographic safari.

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"Further evidence . . . of Goodall's stunning intellectual acuity, broad curiosity, courage, decency, and goodness." (starred) Kirkus Reviews

"A welcome sequel to the critically acclaimed Africa in My Blood . . . her fans will clamor for this book." Publishers Weekly

"Gripping and full of intelligent, rich detail." Newsday

"Offers an insider's perspective . . . Goodall is a charming correspondent." The Washington Post

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