Ancestral Passions
Subtitle: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: August 14, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780684824703
Subjects: Biography: general; Biological anthropology; Prehistoric archaeology; Tanzania; General; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Sociologists; Biography/Autobiography; Africa; Great Britain; Anthropology - General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Social Science-Anthropology - General; Biography; Fossil man; Olduvai Gorge; Physical anthropologists
First sentence: On a rainy April day in 1902, Mary Bazett Leakey stepped off the train at Kikuyu Station, Kenya Colony, clutching her seven-month-old baby, Gladys, in her arms.