"Apart from its enormous scientific value, IN THE SHADOW OF MAN is absolutely fascinating to read as a
story of discovery . . . The whole book is enthralling."
--Boston Globe
"I can't imagine a more vivid or unexpectedly moving introduction to chimpanzees in the wild than Jane Goodall's."
-- George Stade, The New York Times
"Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one of the Western world's great scientific achievements."
--Stephen Jay Gould
"An instant animal classic."
--Time Magazine
Houghton Mifflin Company Web Site, December, 2000
Summary
This best-selling classic tells the story of one of the world's greatest scientific adventures. Jane Goodall
was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study
of chimpanzees in the wild. In the Shadow of Man is an absorbing account of her early years at Gombe Stream Reserve,
telling us of the remarkable discoveries she made as she got to know the chimps and they got to know her. This
paperback edition, illustrated with 80 photographs, includes an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould and a postscript
by Goodall. During Goodall's forty years of studying chimpanzees, she has become one of the world's most honored
scientists. She tells of the later years in THROUGH A WINDOW, also available in Mariner paperback. AFRICA IN MY
BLOOD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN LETTERS tells the story, through her letters, of childhood through the early years at
Gombe.