In words and more than 100 photographs, the author recounts his decade among the world's great apes and includes essays by Jane Goodall, George B. Schaller, and Mary G. Smith.
After meeting Louise, a gorilla, at the Center for Understanding Primate Intelligence Development, Amos and Dunc become convinced that she is the key to stopping a plot involving some assassins and a respected senator.
A strange friendship develops between an orphaned Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London zoo.