| Description |
1 online resource (xvi unnumbered pages, 281 pages : illustrations maps, portraits). |
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text file |
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Life writing series
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Life writing series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 279). |
| Contents |
1. Setting off -- 2. Adapting to Africa -- 3. Rhodes University -- 4. Driving to Giraffeland -- 5. First days at Fleur de Lys -- 6. Settling in at Fleyr de Lys -- 7. October -- 8. November -- 9. December -- 10. Dar es Salaam -- 11. Zanzibar -- 12. Up Kilimanjaro -- 13. To study east African giraffe? -- 14. Heading south -- 15. Mbeya to Umtali -- 16. Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls -- 17. Back at Fleur de Lys -- 18. Leaving the giraffe -- 19. Return to England. |
| Summary |
Annotation Memoir of one of first female zoologists in Africa. Documents Dagg's study of giraffe. Examines racism, colonialism, and life as a woman scientist in the 1950s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dagg, Anne Innis, 1933- -- Travel -- Africa.
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Dagg, Anne Innis. |
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Dagg, Anne Innis -- Voyages -- Africa. |
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Dagg, Anne Innis. |
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Giraffe -- Behavior -- Africa.
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Giraffe. |
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Travel. |
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Africa. |
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Zoologists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Zoologists. |
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Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Africa -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dagg, Anne Innis. Pursuing giraffe. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 0889204896 0889204632 (OCoLC)62535726 |
| ISBN |
9786610377503 |
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6610377502 |
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142376109X (electronic book) |
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9781423761099 (electronic book) |
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9780889204898 |
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0889204896 |
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9780889204638 |
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0889204632 |
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9780889205390 |
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0889205396 |
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128037750X |
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9781280377501 |
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0889204632 (Paper) |
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