Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.

GOODALL, Jane.

Item Number: 146252

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

First edition of this “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania” (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Shirley- With so much appreciation for all that you doing for the chimpanzees- and to open the window into this world of little wonder Jane Goodall April 1991.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.

In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.