"Ethologists are interested in how animals live their lives and why they behave the way they do. They are always asking questions" (Chapter 1, pg. 5.)

"I think that was when I first decided I must go to Africa someday" (Chapter 2, pg. 15.)

"To me it seemed like a message from God, telling us that however bad things may seem, in the end, goodness will win" (Chapter 3, pg. 26.)

"My first journey to Africa was by sea on a passenger liner, the Kenya Castle. I was twenty-three years old. I shall remember that wonderful voyage as long as I live" (Chapter 4, pg. 33.)

"I had never been so happy. There I was, far, far from any human dwellings, out in the wilds of Africa, with animals all around me in the night. Wild, free animals. That was what I had dreamed of all my life" (Chapter 4, pg. 37.)

"This was what I had been...