A highly personal narrative centring around a chimpanzee raised from birth by human foster parents alongside their own baby, 'Sophie's Story' is an inspirational story that provides fascinating insights into the nature of mankind's closest living relatives - and, indeed, that of humans themselves.
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About the Author:
Vince Smith holds an MSc in Behavioural Ecology and has devoted much of his life to conservation issues. From 1987 to 1993 he was senior keeper of apes at Chester Zoo, also working as a consultant for the Jane Goodall Institute in the Republic of Congo. In 1993 he left England to set up and manage the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Nanyuki, Kenya. He now lives in Rwanda, where he manages the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's mountain gorilla conservation programme.
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- PublisherPiatkus Hb/Tpb
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0749950218
- ISBN 13 9780749950217
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages258
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