Biographies are Reality Reading
From Don Cherry to Anne Murray, these stories take you beyond the gloss to discover the people who have shaped our lives and culture.
From Don Cherry to Anne Murray, these stories take you beyond the gloss to discover the people who have shaped our lives and culture.
All of Me
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Music - Country
978-0-307-39844-4 (0-307-39844-7)
October 27, 2009 | $35.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy...
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Music - Country
978-0-307-39844-4 (0-307-39844-7)
October 27, 2009 | $35.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy...
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Just Watch Me
Hardcover | 832 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-676-97523-9 (0-676-97523-2)
October 13, 2009 | $39.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories...
Hardcover | 832 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-676-97523-9 (0-676-97523-2)
October 13, 2009 | $39.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories...
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Ted Kennedy
Hardcover | 272 pages | Crown | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-45103-3 (0-307-45103-8)
May 19, 2009 | $32.00
In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off before the...
Hardcover | 272 pages | Crown | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-45103-3 (0-307-45103-8)
May 19, 2009 | $32.00
In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off before the...
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After the Falls
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-39822-2 (0-307-39822-6)
October 6, 2009 | $32.95
Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960s with the same wit, candour and exhilarating storytelling that has made Too Close to the Falls a modern classic.
When Cathy McClure is thirteen years old, her parents make the bold decision to move to suburban Buffalo in hopes that it will help...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-39822-2 (0-307-39822-6)
October 6, 2009 | $32.95
Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960s with the same wit, candour and exhilarating storytelling that has made Too Close to the Falls a modern classic.
When Cathy McClure is thirteen years old, her parents make the bold decision to move to suburban Buffalo in hopes that it will help...
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Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
Hardcover | 240 pages | Bantam | Biography & Autobiography; Humor
978-0-553-80786-8 (0-553-80786-2)
November 24, 2009 | $29.95
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.
Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously...
Hardcover | 240 pages | Bantam | Biography & Autobiography; Humor
978-0-553-80786-8 (0-553-80786-2)
November 24, 2009 | $29.95
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.
Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously...
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Official Book Club Selection
Hardcover | 368 pages | Ballantine Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Humor
978-0-345-51851-4 (0-345-51851-9)
September 8, 2009 | $29.95
A Conversation with Kathy Griffin:
Q: State your name and profession.
KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber.
Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children's story?
KG: I...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Ballantine Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Humor
978-0-345-51851-4 (0-345-51851-9)
September 8, 2009 | $29.95
A Conversation with Kathy Griffin:
Q: State your name and profession.
KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber.
Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children's story?
KG: I...
Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66675-6 (0-385-66675-6)
October 27, 2009 | $19.95
#1 National Bestseller
Don Cherry has been named a National Hockey League Coach of the Year with a winning percentage of over .600 and also received Coach of the Year honours in the American Hockey League. His comments on Hockey Night in Canada’s "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they entertain, educate...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66675-6 (0-385-66675-6)
October 27, 2009 | $19.95
#1 National Bestseller
Don Cherry has been named a National Hockey League Coach of the Year with a winning percentage of over .600 and also received Coach of the Year honours in the American Hockey League. His comments on Hockey Night in Canada’s "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they entertain, educate...
Where Men Win Glory
Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Military
978-0-385-52226-7 (0-385-52226-6)
September 15, 2009 | $34.00
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In...
Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Military
978-0-385-52226-7 (0-385-52226-6)
September 15, 2009 | $34.00
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In...
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Open
Hardcover | 400 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports & Recreation - Tennis
978-0-307-26819-8 (0-307-26819-5)
November 9, 2009 | $35.00
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.
Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis...
Hardcover | 400 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports & Recreation - Tennis
978-0-307-26819-8 (0-307-26819-5)
November 9, 2009 | $35.00
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.
Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis...
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Bowie
Hardcover | 448 pages | Crown | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-307-39396-8 (0-307-39396-8)
October 27, 2009 | $33.99
Finally an expansive biography of one of the twentieth century’s greatest music and cultural icons
From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’s life from his start as David Jones, an R & B—loving kid from Bromley...
Hardcover | 448 pages | Crown | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-307-39396-8 (0-307-39396-8)
October 27, 2009 | $33.99
Finally an expansive biography of one of the twentieth century’s greatest music and cultural icons
From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’s life from his start as David Jones, an R & B—loving kid from Bromley...
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John Lennon: The Life
Trade Paperback | 864 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-66101-0 (0-385-66101-0)
October 6, 2009 | $24.95
National Bestseller
Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.
For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of...
Trade Paperback | 864 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-66101-0 (0-385-66101-0)
October 6, 2009 | $24.95
National Bestseller
Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.
For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of...
The Education of a British Protected Child
Hardcover | 192 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66784-5 (0-385-66784-1)
October 6, 2009 | $29.95
Achebe’s first new book in more than twenty years — a new collection of autobiographical essays from the world-renowned author of Things Fall Apart.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and subtle voice is ever-present in these seventeen, beautifully nuanced pieces. The Education of a British-Protected Child offers a vivid portrait of growing up...
Hardcover | 192 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66784-5 (0-385-66784-1)
October 6, 2009 | $29.95
Achebe’s first new book in more than twenty years — a new collection of autobiographical essays from the world-renowned author of Things Fall Apart.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and subtle voice is ever-present in these seventeen, beautifully nuanced pieces. The Education of a British-Protected Child offers a vivid portrait of growing up...
The Heart Does Break
Hardcover | 368 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35702-1 (0-307-35702-3)
December 1, 2009 | $29.95
A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own…
A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada’s best known writers.
When Jean Baird’s daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean’s deep instinct was to turn...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35702-1 (0-307-35702-3)
December 1, 2009 | $29.95
A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own…
A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada’s best known writers.
When Jean Baird’s daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean’s deep instinct was to turn...
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The Journal of Hélène Berr
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - France
978-0-7710-1314-0 (0-7710-1314-0)
October 27, 2009 | $21.00
Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.
On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - France
978-0-7710-1314-0 (0-7710-1314-0)
October 27, 2009 | $21.00
Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.
On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr...
The Boy in the Moon
Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35710-6 (0-307-35710-4)
September 22, 2009 | $29.95
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can’t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on...
Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35710-6 (0-307-35710-4)
September 22, 2009 | $29.95
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can’t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on...
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My Father's Country
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-66153-9 (0-385-66153-3)
August 11, 2009 | $21.00
A huge bestseller in Germany for over a year, My Father’s Country offers extraordinarily moving and riveting insight into the experience of being German in the last century.
On August 26, 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth, officer in the German army and member of the SS, was executed for high treason for his...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-66153-9 (0-385-66153-3)
August 11, 2009 | $21.00
A huge bestseller in Germany for over a year, My Father’s Country offers extraordinarily moving and riveting insight into the experience of being German in the last century.
On August 26, 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth, officer in the German army and member of the SS, was executed for high treason for his...
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The Music Room
Hardcover | 224 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35786-1 (0-307-35786-4)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
The house was alive with secrets and history, its vaulted passageways, Great Hall and extensive grounds the setting for theatrical presentations, local fairs and international film shoots. Equally fascinating to young Will was his eldest brother Richard, who suffered from disabling epilepsy. The ebbs and flows of electricity in Richard’s brain...
Hardcover | 224 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35786-1 (0-307-35786-4)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
The house was alive with secrets and history, its vaulted passageways, Great Hall and extensive grounds the setting for theatrical presentations, local fairs and international film shoots. Equally fascinating to young Will was his eldest brother Richard, who suffered from disabling epilepsy. The ebbs and flows of electricity in Richard’s brain...
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Eating Pomegranates
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66617-6 (0-385-66617-9)
October 6, 2009 | $29.95
Full of passion, hope, and despair, this is an extraordinary book about the journey through a devastatingly common disease.
Sarah Gabriel intended to write a novel about relationships. After a troubled, unhappy upbringing that saw the deaths of her mother and aunt, she now had a loving partner and two beautiful children...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66617-6 (0-385-66617-9)
October 6, 2009 | $29.95
Full of passion, hope, and despair, this is an extraordinary book about the journey through a devastatingly common disease.
Sarah Gabriel intended to write a novel about relationships. After a troubled, unhappy upbringing that saw the deaths of her mother and aunt, she now had a loving partner and two beautiful children...
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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
Hardcover | 336 pages | Flying Dolphin Press | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-385-52483-4 (0-385-52483-8)
October 6, 2009 | $32.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and...
Hardcover | 336 pages | Flying Dolphin Press | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-385-52483-4 (0-385-52483-8)
October 6, 2009 | $32.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and...
Hell or High Water
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Political; History - Canada; Political Science
978-0-7710-5693-2 (0-7710-5693-1)
October 27, 2009 | $22.99
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck...
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Political; History - Canada; Political Science
978-0-7710-5693-2 (0-7710-5693-1)
October 27, 2009 | $22.99
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck...
Jacques Cousteau
Hardcover | 320 pages | Pantheon | Science - Oceanography; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Nature - Oceans & Seas
978-0-375-42413-7 (0-375-42413-X)
October 20, 2009 | $34.00
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Pantheon | Science - Oceanography; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Nature - Oceans & Seas
978-0-375-42413-7 (0-375-42413-X)
October 20, 2009 | $34.00
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this...
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I Am the New Black
Hardcover | 224 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-385-52777-4 (0-385-52777-2)
October 20, 2009 | $29.95
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose...
Hardcover | 224 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-385-52777-4 (0-385-52777-2)
October 20, 2009 | $29.95
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose...
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Hope and Despair
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-5759-5 (0-7710-5759-8)
October 20, 2009 | $21.00
The inspiring story of Monia Mazigh’s courageous fight to free her husband, Maher Arar, from a Syrian jail.
On September 26, 2002, Maher Arar boarded an American Airlines plane bound for New York, returning early from vacation with his family because a work project needed his attention. He was a Canadian citizen...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-5759-5 (0-7710-5759-8)
October 20, 2009 | $21.00
The inspiring story of Monia Mazigh’s courageous fight to free her husband, Maher Arar, from a Syrian jail.
On September 26, 2002, Maher Arar boarded an American Airlines plane bound for New York, returning early from vacation with his family because a work project needed his attention. He was a Canadian citizen...
Bay of Spirits
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Travel - Canada - Atlantic Provinces (Nb, Nf, Ns, Pe)
978-0-7710-6467-8 (0-7710-6467-5)
October 13, 2009 | $21.00
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in...
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Travel - Canada - Atlantic Provinces (Nb, Nf, Ns, Pe)
978-0-7710-6467-8 (0-7710-6467-5)
October 13, 2009 | $21.00
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in...
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Gorillas in the Mist
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6468-5 (0-7710-6468-3)
October 13, 2009 | $22.99
Originally titled Virunga, this is the story of Dian Fossey, the mountain gorillas’ greatest champion and martyr. Based on Fossey’s personal papers and on interviews with her colleagues, friends, and enemies, Gorillas in the Mist reveals one woman’s passion for life — and the creatures who share it with us.
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6468-5 (0-7710-6468-3)
October 13, 2009 | $22.99
Originally titled Virunga, this is the story of Dian Fossey, the mountain gorillas’ greatest champion and martyr. Based on Fossey’s personal papers and on interviews with her colleagues, friends, and enemies, Gorillas in the Mist reveals one woman’s passion for life — and the creatures who share it with us.
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