And Fossey was proud of her reputation as the “old woman who lived alone without a man” and her forceful approach to poachers. Or Mary Leaky (a no-nonsense, cigarette smoking woman). The author does no hold back on some things, such as Leaky (while he felt women were more suited to study primates, he was also a dirty old man who liked the ladies). I enjoyed how radically different the personalities of the three women and the other characters involved are. (I certainly had not and when realized she worked with orangutans I wondered why not? They are adorable!) Ottaviani gives each person’s personal story, shows how they overlap, gives basic scientific insights, shows some of the scientist’s observations/studies and combined the history of the time and the science of primates as well. We see two woman we are most likely familiar with, Goodall and Fossey but we may never have heard of Galdikas. They had another connection as well with Louis Leaky who “found” them and helped them achieve their specific goals. Jim Ottaviani has created an introduction to three different women who had little in common but had an interestingly similar goal: to work with primates. Therefore, on the top of my five-book-stack was Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. Recently I have started to realize that the right non-fiction book can be delightful and graphic novels are so much fun anyways why not give it a try? And worse case was I did not like it. When I was returning two books to the library, I also browsed the shelves and this book jumped out at me. The fact it is a graphic novel allows it to be presented in an even more story-like fashion and can help with literally illustrating plot points. And while it is non-fiction, it is what I have started to call a non-fiction novel which allows stories to have the best of the novel-flow and the facts of non-fiction.
It was non-fiction (which I have had a love-hate relationship with over the years) and judging by the cover, young and maybe a little preachy due to the subject. I had no real interest in it at the time. I had seen the book Primates since it came out in 2013 (hardcover) and 2015 (paper).
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