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A Dark Place in the Jungle: Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature

by Spalding, Linda | HC | Good
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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9781565122260
Book Title
Dark Place in the Jungle : Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature
Item Length
9.4 in
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication Year
1999
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Linda Spalding
Genre
Nature, Science
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Number of Pages
300 Pages

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In A Dark Place in the Jungle, writer Linda Spalding travels to Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of orangutan researcher Birute galdikas. What she finds is an unholy mix of foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, and half-tame orangutans. Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Formed the famed trio of "angels" Louis Leakey encouraged to study great apes in the wild In 1971, she went into the jungle to study orangutans and decades later emerged with a rundown empire crumbling around her. Along the way, as poachers and timber barons slaughtered orangutans by the hundreds, Galdikas evolved into Ibu, the great mother of orphan orangutans, blurring the line between ape and human, tourist and scientist, Eden and everything else. To the orangutans, this was perhaps the cruelest blow of all. Spalding's quest takes her from the offices of Galdika's foundation in Los Angeles to the crocodile-infested Sekonyer River in Borneo, where she confronts the sad, corrupting failure of a woman trying desperately to mother a species to survival; the dangers and temptations of ecotourism; and the arrogance of the human inclination to alter the things we set out to save. Here is a book that shows us no paradise is safe from the machinations of man, and no one immune to temptation.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565122267
ISBN-13
9781565122260
eBay Product ID (ePID)
621964

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dark Place in the Jungle : Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature
Author
Linda Spalding
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
300 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
21 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ql737.P96s62 1999
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
98-056641
Dewey Decimal
599.88/315/095983
Dewey Edition
21

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