The Ghosts of Gombe

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. 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