When a school friend invited her to come stay at her parent’s farm in Kenya, she handed in her resignation the same day. When she left school at eighteen, she took a secretarial course and two different jobs. When she was eight years old, she decided she would go to Africa and live with wild animals when she grew up. The entire house was searching for her and her mother called the police during that time. So she crawled into a henhouse and sat quietly for five hours in the corner just to see for herself.
Goodall was asking questions about how hens lay eggs but she wasn’t getting a satisfactory answer. “The years covered in this book were, perhaps, the happiest of my life, when I was immersed in the forest world I had dreamed of as a child.” JGįascinated with animals from an early age: One of her earliest memories (age four) was when her family went to a farm for a holiday. Lived in a red-brick Victorian house in Bournemouth where she dreamed of one day going to Africa, living with animals, and writing books about them.īooks that inspired her: Doctor Dolittle, Tarzan, Beatrix Potter, and The Wind in the Willows. See my notes below or Amazon for details and reviews. And the stories she tells of her time in Africa with the chimps, how she got to know them, the behaviors she observed, and what that taught her about our own humanity will open your mind and ground you in something real. Her beginnings-how she found her way to Gombe and met Dr. This book focuses on her first ten years in the field. Jane Goodall’s account of her life and lessons learned living among the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park.
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