I’ve heard Jane Goodall speak in a couple of interviews and was always struck by her but this was my first time reading any of her work. I thoroughly enjoyed this and sped through it in less than a week. Her writing is wonderful, you feel immersed in her world (and by that route in the world of the chimpanzees she studied). I can see moments where scientists today might be critical of her research decisions; but she’s open and honest about those choices and her reasons behind them. I appreciate that this book doesn’t attempt to give every single piece of data she had collected in the decade of research prior to publication, but rather selects a series of stories of individuals — really life stories in several cases — that serve to elucidate this world.