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When Paul Du Chaillu set out to bag the gorilla in the name of science (and as a shortcut to academic credibility), it was still the quasi-mythical njena of the Western imagination: a savage, bloodthirsty beast deep in the forests of equatorial Africa, seen only by the tribes that dwelled within. He...
"Paul Du Chaillu’s celebrity had largely faded by the time of his death" From the afterwords of Between Man and Beast. And I think for a most of modern world that is true. Sure there will able be those in the know who could recount the stories or found a reference in a university guild about his co...
"Between Man and Beast" is the story of Paul du Chaillu, a rather unlikely explorer who is the first person to see and document the lowland gorillas of Africa.Monte Reel's exceptionally well-researched book (there are more than 70 pages of endnotes and bibliographic references) introduces us to Paul...
Well, this seems kinda cool. I like the whole 19th-century birth of evolution thing, and also explorers, so...David Quammen's review is here.
Loved this book. Totally engaging throughout, with just the right amount of scientific elements mixed with tales of human nature. My fave non-fiction book of 2013 so far. I wrote a blog about it for Indigo.ca here: http://blog.indigo.ca/non-fiction/item/1409-indigo-spotlight-between-man-and-beast.ht...
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