Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel

Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm

Monte Reel

402 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history science travel adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins--two of which wer...

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