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Sto caricando le informazioni... Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneodi Birute M. F. Galdikas
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It`s a shame that Birute Galdikas not as much well known worldwide as Jean Goodall or Dian Fossey. Being one of the `Leakey girls`, She earned imperishable merits with her work studying the perhaps least easily accessible apes, the orangutans.Her book is an great and exciting read and has to be on the shelf next to Goodall`s and Fossey`s books. Galdikas reviews and shares her early experiences studying orangutans, partically the struggles at the beginning. Great detail is placed within the first 7 years and the first wild oranguatans and ex captives that she meets. Not to mention the transition into Indonesian culture and values. After a point she quickens the pace and summarizes where she is now (1995) in her studies and conservation efforts. Overall a fantastic read that I had a hard time putting down. I took my time so as to fully experience this book and have great respect for Galdikas and the other primatologists mentioned- who took great risks to become not just researchers but also great ape conservationists. A fascinating and riveting insight in a little known world and an very private person. It takes a special someone to dedicate themselves and their whole lives to the study and care of a species of animals and Bruite is a legend in the animal conservation world. She isn't the most easy person to get to know but through this book you do. You experience with her the hardships and the joys that she has gone through for the animals she has come to love above anything and anyone else. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of ex-captive orangutans - and gradually adjusted to the blood-sucking leeches, swarms of carnivorous insects, and constant humidity that rotted her belongings in the first year. Her first son spent the early years of his life at Camp Leakey with adopted orangutans as his only playmates.
The wild orangutans Galdikas studied and the ex-captives she rehabilitated became an extended family of characters no less vivid than her human companions. Throatpouch, a huge and irritable grouch, fought off rivals for the right to claim adolescent Priscilla as his mate. Handsome Cara at first tried to rid the forest of its human intruder by hurling dead branches at Galdikas from the canopy above. Little Sugito, rescued from a cramped cage and returned to the jungle claimed Galdikas as his mother and clung to her fiercely, night and day, for months. A groundbreaking chronicler of the orangutans' life cycle, Galdikas also describes the threats that increasingly menace them: the battles with poachers and loggers, the illicit trade in infant orangutans, the frustrations of official bureaucracy. Her story is a rare combination of personal epiphany, crucial scientific discovery, and international impact - a life of human and environmental challenge.
Reflections of Eden is the third act of a drama that has captivated the world: the story of a pioneering primatologist, a world leader in conservation, and a remarkable woman. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book was published in 1995 and at that time, Birute was still in Borneo doing her orangutan studies. The book also goes into detail about Birute’s personal life – her marriage(s) and children. I’ve read lots about Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, but except for one graphic novel that included all three, this is the first I’ve read about Birute. Her book alternates chapters between some of the orangutans and the other topics in the book (though, of course, they all overlap). Very good book, but know that there is a lot more to this one than “just” the animals. ( )