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Written by Jane Goodall with Gary McAvoy & Gail Hudson - Audio book narrated by Tippi Hedren - Abridged Nonfiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (November 2005)

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The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this provocative and encouraging book, Jane Goodall sounds a clarion call to Western society, urging us to take a hard look at the food we produce and consume and showing us how easy it is to create positive change.

With a firm but gentle touch, Dr. Goodall paints a global landscape in which corporations own the rainwater, patent the earth's seeds, and give birth to mysterious "Frankenfoods." This isn't science fiction; it's reality. But it's a reality we can repair. Offering her hopeful, stirring vision, Goodall argues convincingly that each individual can make a difference. She introduces us to inspiring everyday heroes like Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer who fought Monsanto and won; Jose Bove and the Mowing Brigade, French activists who stage dramatic protests against genetically modified crops; and John Mackey, the founder and CEO of Whole Foods, who changed his store's policy to sell only ethically raised animal products.

Most valuable of all, Goodall offers simple strategies each of us can employ to foster a sustainable society. It doesn't take much to turn the tide. By using water filters, eating organic, shopping at farmers' markets, drinking shade-grown coffee, and taking other mindful measures, we can all do our part to reclaim our food, our health, and our planet. And we can start now. Brilliant, empowering, and irrepressibly optimistic, HARVEST FOR HOPE is one of the most crucial works of our age. If we follow Goodall's sound advice, we just might save ourselves before it's too late.

About the Authors: Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment and gaining their confidence. Her observations and discoveries are internationally heralded. Her research and writing have made, and are making, revolutionary inroads into scientific thinking regarding the evolutions of humans.

In 1977, Dr. Jane Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation to provide ongoing support for field research on wild chimpanzees. Today, the mission of the Jane Goodall Institute is to advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things. The Institute is a leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats and is widely recognized for establishing innovative community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa and the Roots & Shoots education program in more than 70 countries.

Since 1999 Gary McAvoy has served as volunteer Seattle Base Camp Leader for the Jane Goodall Institute, coordinating Dr. Goodall's promotional events and fund-raising efforts in the Pacific Northwest. Cooking with natural, organic foods has been Gary's lifelong avocation and provided the inspiration for Harvest for Hope, further supporting Dr. Goodall's mission of protecting animals, the planet, and the environment.

A high-tech entrepreneur for over two decades, Gary is the founder and CEO of GetToTheTop a global search marketing firm based in Seattle. His groundbreaking book Cracking the New Economy: Business Tools for the Entrepreneur (Washington Software Alliance, 2000) is a compilation of 70 experts speaking to the methods, strategies, and tactics for building and maintaining thriving technology companies. Gary's achievements in the software industry have been widely recognized, most notably when he was named a semi-finalist in the 1995 Pacific Northwest Inc. Magazine/Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Gary is also publisher of the Literati Network, the Web's oldest community of literary websites. He is currently at work on a novel.

Gail Hudson's lifelong passion for organic foods and holistic living inspired her to work with Dr. Goodall on Harvest for Hope. For the past 20 years Gail has worked in the publishing industry as a freelance writer as well as a newspaper and magazine editor. Her features and personal essays about natural health, spiritual growth, and parenting have appeared in numerous publications, including Self, Utne, Natural Health, Parents, Body & Soul, and Good Housekeeping. Gail. For many years Gail was Spirituality Editor at Amazon.com, writing book reviews and interviewing authors for the website.

Her books include an anthology of personal essays for Seal Press titled I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers Hudson Books, published in April 2005. As a contributing editor for Child magazine, she wrote a book on sibling rivalry, Quarreling, which resulted in Gail being interviewed by Katie Couric on the "Today Show."

Gail teaches classes and workshops on personal narrative and memoir writing. She is also a writing coach for numerous book writers. She lives with her husband and two children in the Seattle area.

About the Narrator: Tippi Hedren made her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, earning the Golden Globe Award, and starred in Hitchcock's, Marnie, opposite Sean Connery. She is the founder of the Roar Foundation's Shambala Preserve in Acton, California, a sanctuary for rescued exotic cats. She has worked tirelessly on state and federal levels to ultimately pass legislation to stop the illegal breeding and selling of exotic cats for private ownership.