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The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
by Winter, Jeanette
Month: 6
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
List Price: $17.99

Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, observing chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates a...(more)

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