What was the title of Jane Goodall's 1990 memoir about 30 years at Gombe?

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Jane Goodall’s 1990 memoir about three decades with chimpanzees at Gombe was titled Through a Window. Its full title is Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.

The book follows Goodall’s long-term observations in what is now Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. Rather than presenting chimpanzees as abstract laboratory subjects, it describes recognizable communities, family relationships, births, deaths, alliances, aggression, and individual personalities.

Through a Window is often confused with Goodall’s earlier book In the Shadow of Man, published in 1971, which introduced her pioneering fieldwork to a broad audience. Other titles, such as Africa in My Blood and Seeds of Hope, concern different parts of her life and conservation work.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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