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2000 Audie Award Winner for 'Best Inspirational/Spiritual' Audiobook, presented by the Audio Publishers Association for excellence in Spoken Audio publishing.

Received the coveted "AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD" (February/March 2000) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

"Being with Jane Goodall is like a walk with Gandhi." --Boston Globe

"The Einstein of behavioral sciences." --Los Angeles Times

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very definition of humanity. Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey, with observations as profound as the knowledge she has brought back from the forest.

As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and over the years the little girl inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with famed paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey; accomplished scientific breakthroughs in Gombe; and, ultimately, became a champion of the environment.

It has been a life blessed with faith, resolve, and purpose, though not without its crises. Jane Goodall endured the horrors of the London blitz and World War II, postwar hardships, vicious rumors and establishment assaults on the integrity of her work, a terrorist attack and hostage taking in Africa, and her husband's slow, agonizing death. But throughout, her religious convictions, although tested, have helped her survive-and Jane Goodall's pursuit of science has enhanced, not eroded, her belief in God.

In this book she candidly shares her life—talking of the love and support of her mother, her son, her late husband, of friends and strangers—as well as the Gombe chimpanzees she introduced to the world nearly forty years ago. And she gives us convincing reasons why we can and must open ourselves to the saints within each of us.

At one with nature and challenged by the man-made dangers of environmental destruction, inequality, materialism, and genocide, Dr. Goodall offers insight into her perceptions of these threats and celebrates the people who are working for earth's renewal. Here, indeed, is Reason For Hope.

Written & audio book narrated by Jane Goodall - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner AudioBooks (October 1999)