Woman in the Mists

by Farley Mowat
Ages 10 and up
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No one loved gorillas more. She was passionately involved with saving the mountain gorillas of Rwanda and worked to save them for 19 years before being murdered at her research station. Mowat used Fossey's papers and interviews with those who knew her best to write this story of her life and work.

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