1934-

Story of Jane's extraordinary life with the chimps she knows and loves.

Details the early life of English naturalist Jane Goodall through letters and travel diaries from her childhood, to her education at Oxford, to her historic trip to Africa where she meets Louis Leakey and begins her work with Chimpanzees.

Jane Goodall explores her life and personal spiritual odyssey, discussing the lessons she learned as she studied chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve.

Recalls what it was like to help out in the family grocery store and to go shopping in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the 1940s.

While focusing on home life, this account presents the story of Geneva Lewis, an African-American who grew up in segregated DeQuincy, Louisiana, during the 1940s.

Discusses Sparky Anderson's early career as a baseball player in minor and major leagues and his later success as manager of the Detroit Tigers.

A biography of twentieth-century scientist Carl Sagan, drawing on interviews with family members, friends, colleagues, admirers, and detractors, as well as an archive of unpublished writings and personal papers to provide information about the scientist's private and public life.