Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chipanzees of Gombe

A Houghton Mifflin first American edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Sage green cloth boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with absolutely no wear to the spine, corners, or edges, bearing gilt lettering to the spine as issued. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. A pristine, essentially unread copy in fine condition throughout — a genuinely beautiful book in exceptional condition. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, in 1990, this first American edition, first printing hardcover of Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe was first published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. Its author, Dame Jane Goodall, ethologist, conservationist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace, winner of the Kyoto Prize (1990), the Hubbard Medal (1995), and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1997), is one of the most celebrated scientists and humanitarians of the twentieth century. At twenty-six, under the mentorship of paleoanthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey, Goodall travelled to Gombe Stream National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania to become the first person to study chimpanzees in the wild. Her 1960 observation that chimpanzees make and use tools — reported to Leakey in a letter that he described as one of the most exciting he had ever received — forever redefined our understanding of the boundary between human and animal. Through a Window is the sequel to her landmark In the Shadow of Man (1971), continuing her account of thirty years among the Gombe chimpanzee community. Described as one of the most important scientific works ever published, and one that reads, in Goodall's hands, like a novel. Illustrated throughout with photographs.