Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe Audiobook

In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.

On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a community where the principal residents are chimpanzees. Through Goodall's eyes we watch young Figan's relentless rise to power and old Mike's crushing defeat. We learn how one mother rears her children to succeed and another dooms hers to failure. We witness horrifying murders, touching moments of affection, joyous births, and wrenching deaths.

As Goodall compellingly tells the story of this intimately intertwined community, we are shown human emotions stripped to their essence. In the mirror of chimpanzee life, we see ourselves reflected.

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“Narrator Pearl Hewitt deftly continues the story renowned primatologist Jane Goodall began in…In the Shadow of Man, her first memoir of her work with chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania…Once more, listeners will strongly relate to the chimpanzees, as does Goodall…Hewitt warmly shares snippets of Goodall’s personal life..Most atmospheric is Hewitt’s delivery of Swahili passages and African workers’ humor and melodious English.”

— AudioFile