With careful detail, The Ghosts of Gombe reveals for the first time the full story of day-to-day life in Goodall’s wilderness camp—the people and the animals, the stresses and excitements, the social conflicts and cultural alignments, and the astonishing friendships that developed between three of the researchers and some of the chimpanzees. In an extended act of literary forensics, Jane Goodall biographer Dale Peterson explores some of the painful sequelae that haunted the lives of animals and researchers.

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