In the shadow of man
Goodall's classic account of primate behavior combines a landmark scientific study with a fascinating adventure story of a determined young woman's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before.
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2recommend
2mentions
2people
2020–2021years
100% recommend
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- I recommend Jane Goodall's memoirs (In the Shadow of Man, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, and more), I think they provide a fairly balanced view on our relationship with our near ancestors (what Chimpanzees can and cannot do).
- Fiction:
Mordecai Roshwald, Level 7
Alexander Dewdney, The Planiverse
Joseph Heller, God Knows
Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
Non-fiction:
Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man
Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image
Michael E. Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads
Michael Harris, The Atomic Times
I may add guilty pleasures like the Legacy of the Force series, but I don't think this is what people here are looking for.
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