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Seeds of hope wisdom and wonder from the world of plants

In this book the author, a renowned naturalist examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. Long before she began her work with chimpanzees, she had a passion for the natural world. Now she opens our eyes to the profound relationship we have with the world of plants, exploring...

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Main Author: Goodall, Jane, 1934-2025 (Author)
Other Authors: Hudson, Gail E. (contributing author.), Pollan, Michael (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Goodall, Jane, > 1934-2025.
Goodall, Jane, > 1934-2025 > Philosophy.
Human-plant relationships.
Plants.
Trees.
Philosophy of nature.
Hope.
Botany.
Philosophy.
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Summary:In this book the author, a renowned naturalist examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. Long before she began her work with chimpanzees, she had a passion for the natural world. Now she opens our eyes to the profound relationship we have with the world of plants, exploring our dependence on the plant kingdom as food, medicine, and our helpers in the task of healing the harm we have inflicted on the natural world.
Item Description:"First edition, April 2014"--Title page verso.
Edition published 2013 (New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group) also called "First edition," but lacks bibliographical references included in the 2014 edition.
Physical Description:xi, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-410) and index.
ISBN:9781455513208
1455513202
9781455554492
1455554499
Author Notes:Jane Goodall, 1934 - Jane Goodall, a well-respected English zoologist, is famous for her fieldwork with chimpanzees in Africa. An early interest in African wild animals and the opportunity, at age 18, to stay on a friend's farm in Kenya, led her to Dr. Louis Leakey; then curator of the National Museum of Natural History in Nairobi. Almost immediately Leakey hired Goodall as his assistant secretary, and she was soon accompanying Leakey and his wife on their expeditions.

Following Leakey's suggestion that a field study of some of the higher primates would be a major contribution to the understanding of animal behavior, she began studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1960. Although she had no undergraduate degree, Goodall earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965, based on her first five years of research at the Gombe Center. After more than 20 years of extensive study and direct contact with wild chimpanzees in their natural habitat, Goodall continues to research, teach, and write about primate behavior today.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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