Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters
Letters from 1934 to 1966: the childhood ambition, the secretarial job that funded the passage, and the first Gombe seasons before anyone believed chimpanzees used tools.
Goodall’s letters from 1934 to 1966 cover the childhood ambition, the secretarial job taken to fund the passage, and the first seasons at Gombe before anyone believed chimpanzees used tools. It is the record of how a dream was turned into a life, written as it happened rather than reconstructed afterwards, which is what gives it authority.
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Maria Popova
The essence of Goodall’s integrated, holistic view of life comes ablaze in a passage from a letter to a friend found in Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters (public library) — that magnificent record of how she turned her childhood dream into reality. The day before New Year’s Eve 1958, visiting her family in London for the first time since her departure to Africa twenty months earlier, she writes:
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