Gorilla Dreams The Legacy Of Dian Fossey

Download or read book Gorilla Dreams: the Legacy of Dian Fossey written by Georgianne Nienaber and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine that murdered primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist fame were alive today and able to reflect upon her death as well as her legacy. This is the impetus behind author Georgianne Nienaber's compelling work, Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey. At the beginning of Gorilla Dreams, Fossey attends her own funeral and watches her murdered gorillas interacting with the graveside bystanders. She establishes a new relationship with the slain gorilla Digit, who acts as her guide after death as she carefully reviews her life, its challenges, successes, hardships, and the ultimate closure of her murder. Although Fossey's death is officially unsolved, recently released documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as testimony from the International War Crimes Tribunal proceedings, offer new suspects, motives, and opportunities. Every fact about Fossey's life is meticulously annotated. However, the setting of her conversations with the murdered gorillas is obviously fictional, yet steeped in African tradition. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey is a biographical interpretation of the famed primatologist's life that honors the African belief that the dead live on in spiritual form.

Download or read book Green Heroes written by László Erdős and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector. The book describes inspiring personal achievements, and at the same time it provides readers with information regarding the history, the main directions and the ethical principles of the environmental movement. Some of the most important characters of the movement from all around the world, are included in the book. As well as the title characters, Buddha and Leonardo DiCaprio, other famous environmentalists like Albert Schweitzer, David Attenborough and Jane Goodall are discussed. Some of the less well-known but equally important environmentalists such as Chico Mendes, Bruno Manser, Henry Spira, Tom Regan or Rossano Ercolini are highlighted in the various chapters. The selection of characters represents all major branches within the green sector, ranging from medieval saints to Hollywood celebrities, from university professors to field activists, from politicians to philosophers, from ecofeminists to radicals.

Download or read book No One Loved Gorillas More written by Camilla De la Bédoyère and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her previously unpublished letters, this deeply personal and illuminating portrait of preservationist Dian Fossey is accompanied by dazzling, full-color photographs by Campbell, who spent nearly four years making a visual journal of Fossey's work.

Download or read book Environment Chronicles written by and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of stories from across India, South Asia, and the world brings to you personal accounts of struggle, survival, trust, and hope for a better tomorrow. From the pollution-choked rivers in our cities, contamination in our food, to the carbon footprint of the US elections; from the promise of smokeless chulhas to the scenario in which we run out of oil; from the slow death of our historical heritage to the plight of the magnificent big cats, this thorough, complete, and meaningful anthology takes a broad sweep over the past few years to highlight and present the best and the biggest stories.

Download or read book Goodbye, Billie Jean written by Lorette C. Luzajic and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Jackson died, Lorette C. Luzajic wanted to do something special. Like just about everyone else in the world, she wanted to mark the loss of this legendary life. So she decided to make the most amazing, most interesting, best-looking MJ book of all. Goodbye, Billie Jean: the Meaning of Michael Jackson showcases fifty-one diverse writers sharing their perspectives and experiences. The collection features Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges; Daybreak Alberta host Russell Bowers; celebrity drag queen Donnarama; Tibetan monk Jamyang Khedrup; UK writer and friend of Michael Jackson, Jonathan Margolis; Georgianne Nienaber, who usually writes about Congo and Rwanda issues; Iranian journalist Javad Rahbar; Jungian therapist Coline Covington; award-winning poet, Samuel Peralta; and that's just for starters. The beautiful cover art was a custom commission for this project, painted by world-renowned pop artist, Iaian Greenson. This is a book not to be missed.

Download or read book New Encyclopedia of Africa written by John Middleton and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of alphabetically-arranged entries from Taboo and Sin to Zubayr on the history, geography, culture, religion and ideologies, wars, and economy of the African nations; and includes essays, photographs, thematic outline, chronology, and an appendix of individual ethnic groups.

Download or read book A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg written by Tim Cahill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cahill is great! He is the P.J. O'Rourke of the outdoors! Fearless and hell-bent on overcoming all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to the oddest and scariest adventures nature has to offer.