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A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakeys Last Angel Into Borneo
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A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakeys Last Angel Into Borneo Paperback - 2003

by Linda Spalding

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Birute Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, form the famed trio of angels Louis Leakey trained to study great apes in the wild. While Fossey studied the gorilla and Goodall the chimpanzee, Galdikas went to Borneo to study the orangutan and, decades later, emerged as a complicated figure, embroiled in scandal. Spalding s quest to know this woman takes her from the offices of Galdikas s foundation in Los Angeles to the Sekonyer River in Borneo, where she discovers a beguiling cast of characters. A host of foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of the Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, and half-tame orangutans all vie for control of this despoiled Eden. Dark Place in the Jungle is an absorbing rumination on the failure of a woman trying desperately to mother a species to survival, the dangers and temptations of eco-tourism, and the arrogance of our inclination to alter the very things we set out to preserve. 30 black-and-white photographs are featured in this revealing and fascinating journey."

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"ONE OF THE things I've learned," Birute tells a college audience in Long Beach, California, in 1995, "is that orangutans have the most intense mother-offspring relationship of probably any mammal.

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  • Title A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakeys Last Angel Into Borneo
  • Author Linda Spalding
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seal Press (CA), New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date August 11, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781580051019 / 1580051014
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.51 x 0.91 in (20.96 x 14.00 x 2.31 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003057300
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.883

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