No One Loved Gorillas More: Dian Fossey: Letters from the Mist

By Camilla de la Bédoyère, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Dian Fossey

Book Overview

Now in paperback, the full story of Dian Fossey's life with the mountain gorillas of Africa is told through her own previously unpublished letters, published in association with the Gorilla... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792293444
• ISBN13: 9780792293446
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.8" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Dedicated Woman

Diane Fossey has been one of my female science heroes ever since I was a little girl. This book gives an interesting view of Diane as a person. She was super dedicated to the Gorillas, but also had many personal demons. If you wanted an introspective view of this legend, I recommend this beautiful book.

Beautiful Book About a Beautiful Person

The words "No One Loved Gorillas More" are the words put on Dian Fossey's tombstone after she was murdered. This book is her eulogy. It is composed of letters she wrote between 1966 and her death two days after Christmas, 1985. The letters are combined with more than a hundred color photographs of she and a reverential story of her life by journalist Camilla de la Bedoyere. Dian spent most of her adult life in the study of the mountain gorilla. She loved those animals more than life herself, and it was her dedicated attempts to preserve them and protect their future that lead to her unexplained killing. Her legacy lives on. Even with the tremendous upheavals in Rwanda, with the killing of a million or more people, the numbers of wild gorillas is growing. It can only be hoped that this book will help more people to understand what Dian stood and died for.