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Summary: Birute's personal account of two decades at Tanjung Puting
Review: Having spent time volunteering at Tanjung Puting, I felt this book was wonderfully written. Although The Professor (Birute) is not an open person, she willingly shared her personal feelings in this book. She tells us in a wonderful fashion about the difficulties of establishing Camp Leakey in Kalimantan. She discloses much about marriage and divorce from Rod, and raising Binti. Her account of Rod's efforts during 7 1/2 years at Tanjung Puting are wonderful in that she credited him with so much. I appreciate her assimilation into Indonesian and Dayak culture. At first glance it may be difficult for us to understand how she could marry Pak Bohap, a native Dayak who even admits to having eaten orangutans. But her writing about this relationship is so understandable. Overall, this is a wonderful book by a woman entirely devoted to the conservation of one of the world's great apes. The story of her life in Borneo is fascinating. A great read about one of Louis Leakey's proteges!
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Summary: Birute's personal account of two decades at Tanjung Puting
Review: Having spent time volunteering at Tanjung Puting, I felt this book was wonderfully written. Although The Professor (Birute) is not an open person, she willingly shared her personal feelings in this book. She tells us in a wonderful fashion about the difficulties of establishing Camp Leakey in Kalimantan. She discloses much about marriage and divorce from Rod, and raising Binti. Her account of Rod's efforts during 7 1/2 years at Tanjung Puting are wonderful in that she credited him with so much. I appreciate her assimilation into Indonesian and Dayak culture. At first glance it may be difficult for us to understand how she could marry Pak Bohap, a native Dayak who even admits to having eaten orangutans. But her writing about this relationship is so understandable. Overall, this is a wonderful book by a woman entirely devoted to the conservation of one of the world's great apes. The story of her life in Borneo is fascinating. A great read about one of Louis Leakey's proteges!
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Summary: Enjoyed the book - check out the expose!
Review: Hi, I enjoyed the book and was interested in the details of her research. She writes an apology, in the formal sense, of why it took her so long to get her degree, publish her research, and write her book, unlike Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, the other 2 Leakey "angels." She comes off a bit "poor me." Now I've just found out about a new book, called A Dark Place in the Jungle, by Linda Spalding, which is an expose of Galdikas. I'm looking forward to reading *this* book to get another look at the orangatang research in Borneo.
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Summary: A beautiful life explored
Review: I bought this book on sale from Amazon online and enjoyed reading it. B. Galdikas provides powerful insight into the study of orangutans in the forests of Borneo. Although I felt that she over stressed the important metaphors she used to explain experienced conflicts and personal desires, I cherished the real life feel of this autobiography. Birute and her twin soulmates, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, have something I think truely important to say about primates, environmental activism and humankind.
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Summary: This book gave me hope and motivation, for earth and myself.
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who plans to persue a career in the research sciences, who loves animals, or both. The book reads very easily, yet packs in tons of facts. If I had to name one book I've read recently that will change my life, it will likely be this one.
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Summary: Intersting but there is a lot more to the story
Review: I strongly suggest that you read the book "A Dark Place in the Jungle" to get the result of Linda Spalding's research into the practices of Birute and the OFI. There are no clear black and white boundaries between right and wrong, only various shades of grey.
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Summary: Was sometimes hard to follow
Review: I think the book was interesting. I read Gorilla's in the Mist, which I liked very much. The writer repeated herself to much. It got a little winded.
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Summary: One of my favourite books of all time
Review: I was lucky enough to be one of Galdikas' undergraduate students in her Primate Behaviour course here in Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is very inspirational and I have great admiration for her life-long commitment to the orangutans. This book reflects this commitment and love plus adds lots of interesting facts on orangutan behaviour. I enjoyed her engaging writing style and found this book to be a quick read. Definitely a book that I would recommend to not only inspiring biologists, but to the general public as well.
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Summary: looks good
Review: Ive never actually read it but by judging by the cover i will say it looks interesting.
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Summary: a Fascinating woman and a Fascinating book
Review: Louis Leaky hand-picked three women to conduct studies of primates in their natural habitats. Jane Goodall was sent to study chimps in Gombe, Dianne Fossy: Gorillas in Zaire, and finally Birute Galdikas was sent to Borneo to study orangutans. Having read the work of all three remarkable women, Reflections of Eden stands out as one of the more well-written and engrossing books. Whether or not you are interested in primates, I would recommend this book as a story of one woman's determination and personal development in the face of daunting challenges.
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