My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees
Price: $6,500.00
Hard Cover. Washington D.C.: The National Geographic Society, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
Illustrated with 166 color photos by Baron Hugo van Lawick, and 41 paintings and drawings by Jay Matternes. Signed and inscribed by Goodall in black marker on front free endpaper: "For Charlie Woods / Together we can make this a better world for all life / you do so much / Jane Goodall." Publisher's green cloth, with front board lettered in black, National Geographic Society emblem stamped in gilt to front board, spine lettered in gilt, and brick-red endpapers; in its original white dust jacket, with a photo of Goodall and two chimps to front panel, lettered in black. About fine book, with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, and a crease to p. 161 (intentional due to oversized page printing error); about fine dust jacket, with a hint of creasing to spine ends, small closed tear to top right corner of front panel, and very light soiling to jacket. Overall, a fantastic copy. In this book, Jane Goodall recounts her early years of studying chimpanzees in the remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanzania, conveying all of the excitement, humor, and drama of her studies. As the dust jacket states, "The reader will delight in baby Flint's first steps, in sister Fifi's games, and in old Flo's motherly concern. He will share the author's thrill at establishing a bond of friendship with David Greybeard - and her terror when the powerful ape turned on her and Baron van Lawick and pursued them up a mountainside." Jane Goodall (1934 - 2025) was a primatologist, conservationist, and environmental activist, best known for her 65-year study of chimpanzees in what is now the Gombe Stream National Park. After making a breakthrough discovery about chimpanzees early in her career - specifically that they are not herbivores, as it was believed, but omnivores who eat red meat and use a "fishing tool" to lure bugs - she went on to obtain her PhD in 1965 and continued studying chimpanzees. She eventually shifted her energy to activism, establishing the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 and the Roots & Shoots youth organization (1991), and traveling widely to speak about crises facing chimpanzees and the planet at large. In her inspiring career she has received many of the highest honors possible, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2025), and was appointed UN Messenger of Peace (2002) and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003). Item #JGOOD001
