The Deluge and the Ark: A Journey into Primate Worlds

This book has been read, no wear to covers or dust jacket. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "This combines unusual travelogue and observations of Third World culture with an analysis of global patterns of supply and demand for wildlife and the forest products harvested (sometimes destructively) from their habitat. Peterson poses some challenging questions: What is worth more, farmland for famished people in overpopulated developing nations or virgin forest habitat for black-and-white colobus monkeys? Strict enforcement of international import/export restrictions on endangered primates or a steady supply of rhesus macaques critical to production of polio vaccines? While some of Peterson's facts are a tad outdated (for example, he criticizes outmoded conditions at the Atlanta Zoo, which since June 1988 have been dramatically improved), his concluding passage is a persuasive piece of prose calling on average citizens to act now, in many small ways, to stem the tide of species and habitat destruction".-- Laurie Tynan,  "Dale Peterson has written about anthropology, art, computers, conservation, evolution, literature, psychiatry, travel, and animals. He is also Jane Goodall's official biographer, and that biography, "Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man," is among the best known of his twenty books. Dale's latest work, "The Ghosts of Gombe," adds an entirely new chapter to the Goodall story, one that focuses on two pivotal years at her research site, 1968 and 1969, that were magically marked by a startling new perspective on the chimpanzees—and tragically ended by the shocking death of one young chimpanzee researcher." Amazon