The Stewardship Lectures 2007

Thursday, April 5, 7:00 pm

Thoreau in Our Time:

A Biographer Reports on Jane Goodall

with Dale Peterson

Dale Peterson is author of the new biography titled JANE GOODALL: The Woman Who Redefined Man (Houghton Mifflin, Nov. 2006). Dr. Jane Goodall is well-known as a respected scientist, and inspirational conservationist, and a passionate animal activist. But less understood is how important Goodall's revolutionary discoveries among wild chimpanzees have been to the science of primatology. A modern-day Henry David Thoreau, Goodall immersed herself in the world of the chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, and ultimately broke the code in uncovering the personal and social traits of humankind's closest living relatives. Peterson shows that in defining what it means to be a chimpanzee, she redefined what it means to be human.

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Dale Peterson is the coauthor with Jane Goodall of Visions of Caliban (a New York Times Best Book) and the editor of two of her two books of letters, Africa in My Blood and Beyond Innocence. His other books include The Deluge and the Ark, Chimpanzee Travels, Storyville USA, Eating Apes and (with Richard Wrangham) Demonic Males. They have been distinguished as an Economist Best Book, a Discover Top Science Book, a Bloomsbury Review Editor's Favorite, a Village Voice Best Book, and a finalist for the PEN New England Award and the Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize in England. He resides in Massachusetts.

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Directions to the Thoreau Institute

Doors open at 7:00 pm for a wine & cheese reception

Presentation begins promptly at 7:30 pm.

$5 suggested donation is appreciated!

Books will be available for purchase and signing after the event!