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Dec 03, 2011
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Vanessa Woods is quite a good writer - there's no awkwardness of phrasing here, no need to turn back pages to try to figure out what she's talking about. As a long-time fan of the primatologist women like Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey, and having learned a lot about chimp behaviour from reading William Boyd's Brazzaville Beach, I was interested in learning more about bonobos.
Sadly, you won't learn an awful lot about bonobos by reading this book (you'll learn a bit - just not as much as you might ...more
Sadly, you won't learn an awful lot about bonobos by reading this book (you'll learn a bit - just not as much as you might ...more