Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years.

GOODALL, Jane. Edited by Dale Peterson.

$350.00

Item Number: 142049

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.

First edition of the second volume of Goodall’s personal and professional correspondence; a welcome sequel to her critically acclaimed Africa in My Blood. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For the Rhoads Family- Together we can make a difference Jane Goodall.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martha Kennedy.

This second volume of Jane Goodall's autobiography in letters covers the years of many of her greatest triumphs and deepest tragedies. "Africa in My Blood" told of a young woman finding her life's work in the place of her dreams. "Beyond Innocence" tells of the events that shattered many of those dreams and changed Jane Goodall from a rather private observer to a public crusader. "What shines through these wonderful letters is kinship with the animals as well as a deep love for the job of getting to know them - one rarely gets such an intimate view of an obvious truth, that the wellspring of great science is passion" (Frans B.M. De Wall).