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Earphones Award Winner from Audiofile Magazine
Stany Nyandwis gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that worldrenowned primatologist Dr Jane Goodall has called him a chimpanzee whisperer His skills and devotion to these creaturesour closest living relatives with whom we share 987 percent of our DNAhave earned him international awards and sent him on travels within Africa and around the world But he began life in poverty born and raised in a dirtfloor strawroofed hut in rural Burundi The Chimpanzee Whisperer is the story of his astonishing life journey
Narrator Dion Graham so inhabits the memoir that listeners easily could swear hes the author He adopts an accent that to Western ears sounds authentic without affectation or loss of understanding A truly marvelous pairing Audiofile Magazine
Receiving only an elementary education before he quit school Stany Nyandwi began caring for orphaned and rescued chimps in Burundi When the country descended into civil war and genocide he was forced to flee with the chimps and endured long separation from his family Continuing to work with and learn about chimpanzees in Kenya Uganda and later South Africa he made himself into an incomparable authority
His memoir has adventure danger and many unique and touching stories about chimpanzees that show his bond with and understanding of them As told to awardwinning author David Blissett it reveals a remarkable man who has refused to let circumstances defeat him Conditioned by hate wounded by loss he has lived for love faith and compassion giving new life as Dr Jane Goodall writes in her foreword to so many chimpanzees whose families like his own were torn apart by violence
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