Stories of Jane Goodall and the African Wilderness: Taking Yet Another Look at a Remarkable Pioneer

After one book coauthored with Dr. Jane Goodall and four books about her-including a biography that is more than 750 pages-it may seem as if author Dale Peterson has covered all there is to know about the world of Goodall. However, his latest book, The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness, returns to one of his favorite subjects in a more roundabout way. "This book is not about Jane specifically but about her research site and what was going on there in great detail during the late 1960s," says Peterson. "It's an important expansion of the biography because it shows Jane in context."