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hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
When the author John Crocker was a pre-med student in college, he applied and was selected for a six-month research trip to the Gombe Forest in Tanzania to study chimps in the wild with Jane Goodall and her team. In this book, John shares his amazing time in Gombe, the friends he made - both human and animal - and how his observations of chimp behaviour helped lead him as a doctor, and as a parent.
I thought this was a wonderfully written book that held a lot of love and gratitude from the author about his experiences and the wonderful times he had. John shares a lot of respect and love for all of his former team, and field guides as well as a lot of admiration for Jane Goodall who became a friend of his, as well as an inspiration. I really admired how John spoke of how pivotal Gombe was to many things in his adult years from his career as a doctor and how he approached certain diagnoses or predicaments, as well as how he allowed his observation of chimp matriarch Fifi and her parenting of her son Freud show him the type of patenting style he would adopt for his future family.
I think there were times the book could be slightly repetitive but I honestly didn't mind this as I was just loving being in Gombe via John's experiences and recollections, as well as the wonderful homecoming trip he made many years later with his own son.
I thought this was a wonderfully written book that held a lot of love and gratitude from the author about his experiences and the wonderful times he had. John shares a lot of respect and love for all of his former team, and field guides as well as a lot of admiration for Jane Goodall who became a friend of his, as well as an inspiration. I really admired how John spoke of how pivotal Gombe was to many things in his adult years from his career as a doctor and how he approached certain diagnoses or predicaments, as well as how he allowed his observation of chimp matriarch Fifi and her parenting of her son Freud show him the type of patenting style he would adopt for his future family.
I think there were times the book could be slightly repetitive but I honestly didn't mind this as I was just loving being in Gombe via John's experiences and recollections, as well as the wonderful homecoming trip he made many years later with his own son.
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