My Life with the Chimpanzees has nine short chapters. One of the points of the book is to make Goodall's work accessible to children and young adults that have similar interests in the animal world. And because anecdotes about the chimps bear rereading, an index or other means of looking up a particular fact would have been a bonus. The pages of My Life with The Chimpanzees make the legend of Jane Goodall a more concrete reality. Stories of the chimps dominate the bookthey threaten to steal the show in many instances readers will love meeting these personable animals. Goodall talks of the sacrifices of living as she hasher first marriage ended in divorce, and she sees her family (including her son Grub) infrequently. The story of her life with the chimpanzees of Gombe has long been available to adults in this book she brings that world to young readers and may very well inspire them to follow in her footsteps.The book begins with tales of her childhood in England and her earliest awareness of the needs of animals, her friendship with Louis Leakey and her trip with her motherto the first camp at Gombe. One of the points of the book is to make Goodalls work accessible to children and young adults that have similar interests in the animal world. So enthusiastically does Goodall relate the first 28 years of her life in the jungles of Tanzania that her odyssey appears to have just begun.
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