num_pages: 282
description: Warrior... Saint... Pioneer... Naturalist?For thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pansy and Digit in the remote forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa. During that time she established an unprecedented relationship with those 'gentle, dignified' beasts, now an endangered species.In 1985, after years of defending the gorillas from brutal slaughter by poachers, Dian Fossey was herself murdered, probably by the poachers. This magnificent and tragic account of her work with the animals is a story of adventure, human achievement and remarkable endurance.Now an unforgettable film starring Sigourney Weaver and Bryan Brown.
language: English
title: Gorillas in the Mist
titlecomplete: Gorillas in the Mist
characters: Dian Fossey, Digit
genres: Biography, Science, Animals, Memoir, Nature, Biology, Anthropology, Biography Memoir, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 20374
publisher: Penguin Books