HARVEST FOR HOPE
“If you want to be newly awakened to the joy of eating, to the miracle of food, and to the power each of us has by the way we live our lives, do yourself a favor. Get a copy of HARVEST FOR HOPE. I promise you: your life will change in countless ways, all of them for the better...One of those rare truly great books that can change the world.”
—JOHN ROBBINS, AUTHOR OF THE FOOD REVOLUTION AND DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA
“In HARVEST FOR HOPE, Jane Goodall convinces us that we should have a new relationship with food, one that is inspiring and delicious, at the same time a preservation of tradition and an act of conservation.”
—ALICE WATERS, AUTHOR OF CHEZ PANISSE FRUIT AND CHEZ PANISSE VEGETABLES
“I love this book! Jane Goodall’s generous, playful spirit imbues every fascinating age. HARVEST FOR HOPE is full of mind-expanding observations. . . a personal, tender wake-up call telling us that we can reclaim the wisdom of our bodies.”
—FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ, AUTHOR OF HOPE’S EDGE AND DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET
“That Jane Goodall feels called to bring her life as a zoologist in Africa to bare on the state of food in the world, shows that regardless of what we've done in our lives, what we choose to eat matters. And how. Thankfully, HARVEST FOR HOPE points to the actions we can take to correct the imbalances. But it starts where it must, by making us conscious beings, for ultimately, environmental transformation can't exist outside of personal transformation. If you haven’t thought much about the food you eat and the choices you make (and even if you have), this is an important book to read!”
—DEBORAH MADISON, AUTHOR OF VEGETARIAN COOKING FOR EVERYONE AND LOCAL FLAVORS: COOKING AND EATING FROM AMERICA’S FARMERS’ MARKETS
“A lucid, anecdote-filled introduction to the world of food, revealing how our food production affects us and how our choices affect the environment. . . Consider this book the shopping list for you and your children’s future.”
—PAUL HAWKEN, AUTHOR OF ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE
“Thrice a day you get the chance to change the planet. You can change it in significant ways, if you follow just some of this book’s wise advice.”
—BILL MCKIBBEN, AUTHOR OF WANDERING HOME: A LONG WALK ACROSS AMERICA’S MOST HOPEFUL LANDSCAPE
"Persuasive...jargon-free and anecdote-rich approach makes it a useful primer for grassroots activists."
— Publishers Weekly
SELECTED REVIEWS FOR
BEYOND INNOCENCE
From
Booklist
Goodall needs no introduction, for we are all familiar with the blond,
pony-tailed young woman with her chimpanzees. Her 40 years of research in
Tanzania are justly famous, and her ongoing advocacy for the protection of
chimpanzees keeps her in the limelight. But how well do we know the real
Jane Goodall? In this, the second volume of Goodall's letters, a lively
portrait is formed through her missives as the young woman rose to the
height of her scientific contributions and fame. She became a mother,
divorced her first husband, married her second, and lost him to cancer.
She was also the first to observe cannibalism in chimps, lost many of her
study troop during a polio epidemic, and weathered the kidnapping of a
group of her students. Goodall's letters are always distinctly English in
tone, enthusiastic, and informal--even her business letters communicate
her warmth--but through the years, they reveal the growing sense of
purpose in her life as she becomes an activist for chimpanzee welfare.
Editor Peterson provides background to the letters as he stitches them
together with biographical information and footnotes. This illuminating
glimpse into the mind, emotions, and philosophy of an important scientist
who also happens to be a celebrated figure will be requested in all
libraries. Nancy Bent, Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved.
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AFRICA IN MY BLOOD
From January
Magazine, April 2000
See Jane
Grow
Reviewed by Jonathan
Shipley
Jane Goodall is arguably the most well-known, well-respected, well-liked woman alive today. As Stephen Jay Gould points out, "Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one of the Western world's great scientific achievements." But how did she get here? What seeds were planted in her imagination as she was growing up? What motivated her? Scared her? Delighted her? Made her grow? Africa In My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters -- The Early Years sheds some light on those questions in Goodall's own strong and recognizable voice.
I really do simply adore Kenya. It is so wild, uncultivated, primitive, mad, exciting, unpredictable. It is also slightly degrading in its effect on some rather weak characters, but on the whole I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt a stirring in my blood.
These are Goodall's words in the spring of 1957, finding early phrases for the passion that would come to dominate her life. The book is a self-portrait of sorts, in letters and commentary, of her early years, from childhood to the publication of In the Shadow of Man. Much has been documented of her life after that groundbreaking work came into print, including Goodall's latest, a spiritual autobiography entitled, Reason for Hope. Little, however, has been written about her early formative years. Until now.
We see her at all the stages of her life. Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall wrote a letter to her mom when she was around 8-years old: "Darling Mummy, the day befor yestoday Mr and Msis Spens broght a big dog called Jacky who is going to live here untill Uncle Micel come back. I dont know how to spell that word." In 1946 she saw her father off: "It was jolly good fun. We arrived in Southampton and went to the wrong docks, & met a policeman with dermithitis or some such disease on his face." She discusses her job in 1954: "For one thing I am working for Olly up at the clinic... I proffer my services for a mere kick-in-the-pants -- 2/6 an hour; but even that is better than nothing, & is given for a good cause." On her days at Oxford: "I have decided to get another little water turtle like Jacob and install the vivarium in my new room. Later on, when I have got to know the landlady a bit better -- and the woman who cleans -- I may try to keep a hamster..." She writes of her first impressions of African wildlife: "Oh yes, I have seen some giraffe!! Very near the edge of the road -- one was in the road & walked away in a most condescending & stately fashion." She describes some of her first excitement with seeing chimpanzees: "I've discovered more... I've seen them walking along paths, I've seen them resting under trees, I've seen them playing... And, down in one of the cool river valleys I saw just a little baby, peering at me, & then he was joined by the most hideous female with jet black face & beetling brow bridge." She begins to love these creatures: "What about my chimps. Oh, they are so fabulous and wonderful that's it's hardly possible to believe it's true."
Within these pages she grows from girl, to young woman, to woman. She meets the legendary anthropologist, Louis Leakey, who sent her to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on Lake Tanganyika, where she immersed herself in the lives of wild animals as no one has done before. Africa in My Blood is an immediate link into her life. It is at turns funny, sad, heart warming and powerful. The book is a remarkably strong collection from a woman well worth remarking.
Jonathan Shipley is a graduate of Washington State University and the editor of the literary magazine Odin's Eye.
SELECTED REVIEWS FOR
REASON FOR HOPE
Boston Globe
"Being with Jane Goodall is like a walk with Gandhi."
Los Angeles Times
"The Einstein of behavioral sciences."
Wendy Wasserstein,
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
"One of the ten most influential women ever."
Stephen Jay Gould
"Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one of the Western
world's greatest scientific achievements."
Encyclopedia
Britannica
"Without question one of the most significant contributors to our
knowledge of the world around us."
Rocky Mountain News
"The scarcity of Jane Goodalls...may be more ominous than the
scarcity of chimpanzees."
Christian Science
Monitor
"A heroine, in a hero-less time."
From Booklist
Goodall's autobiography reveals a side of this famous primatologist
that most readers will not be familiar with--the spiritual underpinnings
of her scientific discoveries and viewpoints. Starting with her childhood
in England during World War II's blitzkrieg, Goodall's life has not been
one that most of us would consider "normal." Her love of animals
and learning was apparent right from the start and became mixed with her
family's belief in a divine being and how this everyday belief can help
one to survive. Through a chance meeting with anthropologist Louis Leakey,
Goodall was given the opportunity to travel to Tanzania to study wild
chimpanzees. Her recounting of how her scientific theories developed along
with her religious convictions, especially during crisis situations such
as the abduction of some of her students by rebels from Zaire or the long,
agonizing death from cancer of her second husband, provides interesting
insights into the personal convictions of a world-famous researcher. This
unusual book tells of not only the adventures of Goodall's life but also
the faith she constantly relies on and learns from, and as such, it is a
unique look at the development of a scientist. Nancy Bent. Copyright©
1999, American Library Association. All rights reserved
