by Dian Fossey · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140111583
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«Gorillas in the Mist» is Dian Fossey's autobiographical account, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Dian Fossey recounts her thirteen years among the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Mountains in Africa: the daily life of these primates, her bonds with specific individuals, and the difficulties of protecting them from poaching and habitat loss. A chronicle that combines scientific observation and personal commitment to conservation.
1988 edition with the subtitle «Her Own Story»; the work was adapted into a movie starring Sigourney Weaver and Bryan Brown.
For readers interested in biographies, primatology, and wildlife conservation.
Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at the Karisoke Research Center and prior career. It was adapted into a 1988 film of the same name.
