Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
"Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so": First Edition of Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Warmly Inscribed by Jane Goodall
Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
GOODALL, Jane.
$475.00
Item Number: 145836
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, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Alan, Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so. Jane Goodall.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. 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.
