The chimps of Fauna Sanctuary : a true story of resilience and recovery
Book |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Boston :
c2011.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
"A journalist and primatologist tells the remarkable story of thirteen chimpanzees and the people who care for them at Fauna Sanctuary as they recover from the trauma of years of use as laboratory subjects and learn how to trust humans and, more importantly, how to be chimps again"--
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Details
- ISBN: 9780547327808 (hardback)
- Physical Description: 268 p. : ill.print
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2011.
- General Note: Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction 2012
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note: Chimphouse floor plan -- Full-moon week -- Zihuatanejo, Quebec -- Our disquieting doubles -- Blueprints of a dream -- The cage hospital -- Toby and the hoodlums -- Operation cucarachas -- Tales from the campfire -- The pressure washer -- Inner sanctuary -- War memorials -- The haunted -- The end of an era.
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Awards Note:
Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction 2012