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Pursuing Giraffe : A 1950s Adventure, Paperback by Dagg, Anne Innis, Brand Ne...

Before Fossey had her gorillas and Goodall had her chimpanzees, Dagg had her giraffe. As a zoologist in the 1950s she was a woman alone, and so this narrative of her year studying the behavior of this most obvious but still mysterious creature in its natural state was also partly a study of herself as a human being amongst animals, a white woman amongst the indigenous, and a marginalized exotic amongst the colonials.

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Condition	Brand New
ISBN	9780889204638
Book Title	Pursuing Giraffe : a 1950s Adventure
Book Series	Life Writing Ser.
Publisher	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Item Length	9 in
Publication Year	2006
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.7 in
Author	Anne Innis Dagg
Genre	Travel, Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic	Women, Cultural Heritage, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Women's Studies, Africa / South, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Item Weight	16.9 Oz
Item Width	6 in
Number of Pages	300 Pages

Pursuing Giraffe : A 1950s Adventure, Paperback by Dagg, Anne Innis, ISBN 0889204632, ISBN-13 9780889204638, Brand New, Free shipping in the USBefore Fossey had her gorillas and Goodall had her chimpanzees, Dagg had her giraffe. As a zoologist in the 1950s she was a woman alone, and so this narrative of her year studying the behavior of this most obvious but still mysterious creature in its natural state was also partly a study of herself as a human being amongst animals, a white woman amongst the indigenous, and a marginalized exotic amongst the colonials. Dagg makes good use of journals and letters home, describing not only the work that fascinated her and fired her imagination but also her encounters with privation, physical challenges, and poignant reminders of how much the locals gave up for her. Dagg provides photographs of her surroundings in the field, her subjects, and the world outside where apartheid still ruled. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()