Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB and UNREAD condition book which is RARE, hard to find and OUT OF PRINT and a classic illustrated record of the Chimpanzee research project of JANE GOODALL (Baroness Jane Van Lawick Goodall) illustrated with photographs by Goodall's then-husband BARON HUGO VAN LAWICK and published as the Fourth Book in the Special Publications Division of the National Geographic Society--the book is a collectible unsated FIRST EDITION and an OVERSIZED Volume and HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. This book is in SUPERB and UNREAD condition and the book itself has very light dings on the upper opening tips, slight dings on the spine and lower opening tips and slight dustwear on the page edges but NO other significant flaws; the dustjacket has a slight ding and a couple of tiny tears on the upper spine tip and lower right tip of the back cover, slight dings on the opening tips, very light dustwear on the upper and opening edges of the inner flaps and left of the back cover, a tiny tear on the upper center right of the front cover, a few very light scuffs on the back cover and edges of the inner surfaces of the dustjacket and just slight shelfwear otherwise but NO other significant imperfections! The book is titled My Friends The Wild Chimpanzees and it was written by JANE GOODALL (Baroness Jane Van Lawick Goodall) with photographs by HUGO VAN LAWICK and a forword by LEONARD CARMICHAEL; it was published by the National Geographic Society in 1967 and is an unstated 1st EDITION copy.

IN 1960 a young Englishwoman named Jane Goodall embarked on a daring scientific adventure: the study of chimpanzees in the wild. Encouraged and aided by Dr. Louis Leakey, famed anthropologist and paleontologist, she traveled hundreds of miles across East Africa to reach the remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve on the shores of Lake Tanganyika (Strut). There she found the powerful and potentially dangerous wild chimpanzee, a member--along with the gorilla and the orangutan--of the group of primates known as the Great Apes.

This remarkable, charming book tells of the drama and the humor, the challenges and the rewards of her years of exhaustive research. 

When she began her work at the reserve, she was alone except for her mother and an African cook. The chimpanzees fled at her approach, and she sometimes despaired of ever getting near enough to the apes to make worthwhile observations.

But one unforgettable day, crouched out of sight with her binoculars, she watched a chimpanzee carefully tear the edges from a wide blade of sword grass and insert it into a hole in a termite mound. Moments later, he withdrew the blade and devoured the insects clinging to it--she saw a chimpanzee actually fashion and use a crude termite "fishing tool," the first such behavior observed in the animal kingdom.

Word of the young scientist's research spread quickly. Wildlife photographer Baron Hugo Van Lawick was sent to the reserve by the National Geographic Society to record chimpanzee behavior. That he succeeded magnificently is attested by the 166 superb color photographs in this book. Complementing his work are 41 especially commissioned paintings and drawings.

A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!