Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birut? Galdikas

by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks

Book Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birut Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology--and to our own understanding of ourselves.
Tackling Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas in turn, and covering the highlights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596438657
• ISBN13: 9781596438651
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: First Second
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary