In the Kingdom of Gorillas The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas

Name: In the Kingdom of Gorillas The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas
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ISBN: 9780743200073

ISBN-10: 0743200071

ISBN-13: 9780743200073

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Bill Weber, Amy Vedder

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Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda in 1978 to study mountain gorillas with the world-famous Dian Fossey. In The Kingdom of Gorillas tells the story of their years in Rwanda and includes a candid and revealing portrait of Dian Fossey.

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 12/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, have devoted more than twenty-five years to the cause of conservation in nearly thirty countries in Africa and around the world.



List of Illustrations


Guide to African Words, Names, and Places



Under the Gun



The View from Bukavu



Why Are You Here?



Mweza



Close Encounters



A Swamp Runs Through It



Gorillas by the Numbers



Massacre



Pieces in the Puzzle



Final Count



Life in a Salad Bowl



Sex Changes and Songfests



Island Refuge in a Rising Tide



Filters and Perspectives



The Cattle Are Coming



The Mountain Gorilla Project



Crazy White People



Lee



Moving the Mountain



White Apes and Ecotourists



Limits and Reservations



Across the Virungas



Why God Created Gorillas



Food, Cameras, Action



Moving On



Along the Congo-Nile Divide



Where Have All the Cattle Gone?



Another Virunga Death



Rwelekana



Nyungwe



In the Shadow of the Virungas



Living in Rwanda



Ten Years After



In the Face of Madness



The Cauldron Churns



Genocide



Aftermath



Myths and Realities



Tarnished Notions



Pablo


Index