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Cargando... The Chimpanzee Whisperer: A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation (2022)por Stany Nyandwi
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Stany tells this very personal story to a translator. It’s about how he learned to care for chimpanzees in his native Burundi as a young man. Eventually he had to escape or risk death or recruitment to be a soldier in the civil war between Hutus and Tutsis. Working with the Jane Goodall Institute he continued working with and learning about chimps. Goodall called him the chimp whisperer, a name originally bestowed on her. Lacking a formal education he was often overlooked for jobs he was probably the most qualified for given his immense experience and uncanny abilities with chimps. This book is Stany’s opportunity to describe his extreme poverty, his dismay at being passed over by those with a degree, his sadness over wrongs done to him, but also his deep love of family (many brutally killed in Burundi), and Christ. Told simply this is ultimately a feel-good read while learning an immense amount about chimps. I enjoyed it a lot but it’s probably not for everyone. ( ) Stany Nyandwi is a village farmer from Burundi. In 1990, when the country along with Rwanda was caught in a brutal war between Tutsi and Hutu, he fled, by luck landing a job working for an Australian mentor to care for orphaned chimpanzees. He found a gift, every chimpanzee action, movement and sound communicated something, and he sought to understand. He was successful and the trust chimps placed in him earned him the title of a chimpanzee whisperer. Any book about chimpanzees is going to be interesting because they are endlessly fascinating. I found Nyandwi's life story less interesting, though respectful for what he accomplished starting from so little. There is also a documentary about Stany, I think it would be better to see him interacting with chimps. Stany seems a bit lost towards the end, he wants to keep advancing but is limited by his lack of degrees and torn between a global lifestyle visiting sanctuaries, versus living with his family and farming in Burundi. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperer--now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot. Stany Nyandwi's gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a "chimpanzee whisperer." His skills and devotion to these creatures--our closest living relatives, with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA--have earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa and around the world. But he began life in poverty, born and raised in a dirt-floor, straw-roofed hut in rural Burundi. The Chimpanzee Whisperer is the story of his astonishing life journey. It is also an African story. Receiving only an elementary education before he quit school, he suffered injustice and tragic loss because of his ethnic group. He began caring for orphaned and rescued chimps in Burundi. When the country descended into civil war and genocide, he was forced to flee with the chimps and endured long separation from his family. Continuing to work with and learn about chimpanzees in Kenya, Uganda, and later South Africa, he made himself into an incomparable authority. His memoir has adventure, danger, and many unique and touching stories about chimpanzees that show his bond with and understanding of them. As told to award-winning author David Blissett, it reveals a remarkable man who has refused to let circumstances defeat him. Conditioned by hate, wounded by loss, he has lived for love, faith, and compassion, giving new life, as Dr. Jane Goodall writes in her foreword, "to so many chimpanzees whose families, like his own, were torn apart by violence." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)599.885092Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Mammals Non-human primates Apes Chimpanzees History, geography, biography BiographyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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