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Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure: Life Writing

Autor Anne Innis Dagg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2006
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her naivete about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author's response to an "exotic" world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book's foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg's narrative.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780889204638
ISBN-10: 0889204632
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Colecția Wilfrid Laurier University Press (CA)
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Table of Contents for
Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure by Anne Innis Dagg

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Setting Off

2. Adapting to Africa

3. Rhodes University

4. Driving to Giraffeland

5. First Days at Fleur de Lys

6. Settling in at Fleur de Lys

7. October

8. November

9. December

10. Dar es Salaam

11. Zanzibar

12. Up Kilimanjaro

13. To Study East African Giraffe?

14. Heading South

15. Mbeya to Umtali

16. Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls

17. Back at Fleur de Lys

18. Leaving the Giraffe

19. Return to England

Epilogue

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Selected Readings

Glossary


Notă biografică

Anne Innis Dagg graduated with a biology degree from the University of Toronto and earned her PhD in animal behaviour from the University of Waterloo-before many women made careers in science. She has published numerous books and articles on animal behaviour and on feminist issues, including The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 (WLU Press, 2001).