Every time she got close to the chimps they ran away frightened. She woke up early in the mornings put on her same dull clothing and off she went with her notebook and pen to observe. She details her first observations which took a lot since the chimps were just beginning to get used to her. To get to Gombe Stream Reserve to observe the chimpanzee, Goodall had to look for someone that believed in her enough to give her funds for her stay at the Gombe. In the first few chapters Goodall speaks about how she got to Africa from England. Towards the end you were able to develop your own opinion about each of their personalities becoming more familiar with each of the chimps. Throughout the story Goodall discussed the lives of the chimps giving them names and making them become true characters of the book. Goodall narrates the story discussing how over the course of the years she had to gain the chimps trust as they had to gain hers in order to carry out her research. The book, In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall, tells the story of a scientific adventure in the Gombe Stream Reserve in Africa about the lives of chimpanzees.
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