{"product_id":"pursuing-giraffe-a-1950s-adventure-paperback","title":"Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Innis Dagg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, \u003ci\u003ePursuing Giraffe\u003c\/i\u003e vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näivetÃ(c) about the complex social and political issues in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author's response to an \"exotic\" world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. \u003ci\u003ePursuing Giraffe\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book's foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of \u003ci\u003eThe Smell of Apples\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmbrace\u003c\/i\u003e) provides further context for and insights into Dagg's narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Innis Dagg\u003c\/b\u003e earned a biology degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD in animal behaviour from the University of Waterloo. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003ePursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), both published by WLU Press, and many other books. \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Loves Giraffes\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) is a documentary about her life's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911031779552,"sku":"9780889204638","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/24dB6ovMM69780889204638.webp?v=1781298656","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/pursuing-giraffe-a-1950s-adventure-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}