Bonobo handshake [a memoir of love and adventure in the Congo]
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400197453 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 1400197457 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 sound file : digital. - Publisher: Old Saybrook : Tantor Media, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 08:12:10. Audio file. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Justine Eyre. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 117889 KB; MP3 file size: 231078 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Bonobo -- Behavior -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Bonobo -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Wildlife rescue -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Woods, Vanessa -- 1977- |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA...