The Leakeys
Subtitle: a biography
By: Mary Bowman-Kruhm.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591027614
Subjects: Leakey, L. S. B. -- 1903-1972; Leakey, Mary D. -- 1913-; Leakey, Richard E; Paleoanthropologists -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge -- Biography; Physical anthropologists -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge -- Antiquities; Stone age -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge; Fossil hominids -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge; Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) -- Antiquities
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline : significant events in the lives of the Leakeys; title: A fact-finding mission (forward to the past); title: In the beginning ... (Louis, 1925-1933); title: Positive choices, negative voices (Mary, 1913-1936; Louis, 1933-1936); title: War and children : real time (1937-1946); title: Peace and turmoil, personal and political (1947-1958); title: Human history carved in bone (1959-1971); title: Skull drudgery and skullduggery (1972-1977); title: Contentious, contention, and a critical condition (1978-1988); title: Burning his tusks behind him (1989-2003); title: But wait, there's more (2004 and beyond).