Hugo and Jane separated when Grub was seven years old in 1974, and Grub went to school in England. There are lots of black and white photographs in the book. She writes of the birth of their son Hugo Eric Louis Lawick (‘Grub’) in 1967 and compares his growth with the growing family of chimpanzees. She writes of her mother joining her, and her marriage in 1964 to Hugo van Lawick, a Dutch wildlife photographer hired by the National Geographic Society to photograph the chimps. This is about Goodall’s early work from 1960 onwards. Leakey was noted for hiring three female researchers who became well-known primatologists in their own right: Jane Goodall (1934-) in Tanzania, studying chimpanzees, Dian Fossey (1932-1985) in Rwanda studying gorillas (‘Gorillas in the Mist), and Birute Galdikas (1946-) in Borneo studying orangutans. Her first trip to Kenya at the age of 23 was for three months, before returning at the age of 26 to work at the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania for British anthropologist Louis Leakey (1903-1972). Goodall begins with her childhood in England and her life amongst nature and animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees (1988, revised edition 2020) is the autobiography of Jane Goodall, the first person to study chimpanzees in the wild – in Tanzania.
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