**A young woman follows her fiancΓ© to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes-who teach her a new truth about love.** In 2005 Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo
Bonobo Handshake a Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
β Scribed by Woods, Vanessa
- Book ID
- 108108506
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101429631
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