Out Of Africa

Naturalist Jane Goodall has given up the bush for the sake of her cause

When Jane Goodall first journeyed to Africa at age 23 with hopes of studying chimpanzees and other animals, her life was a solitary one. "I am sitting halfway up the slope leading up from our camp," she wrote her family from Kenya. "All around the crickets are singing their nightly chorus--and so many different types of song, it is hard to imagine...An owl is hooting about a half-mile down the gorge, and before supper we heard the weird call of the hyena--which means His Lordship the Lion is around somewhere...At the moment I must stop, and after sitting up here, quite...

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