TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “In the Shadow of Man” by the renowned English zoologist and primatologist Jane Goodall has been released in the book market across Iran.

Hamidreza Hosseini and Abdolhossein Vahabzadeh have translated the book, which has been brought out by Now Publication, Mehr reported.

The best-selling classic tells the story of one of the world's greatest scientific adventuresses. Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the world. 

Goodall’s account of her life and lessons learned living among the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania. This book focuses on her first ten years in the field. Her beginnings—how she found her way to Gombe and met Dr. Louis Leakey are truly inspirational. And the stories she tells of her time in Africa with the chimps, how she got to know them, the behaviors she observed, and what that taught her about our own humanity will open your mind and ground you in something real.

“The years covered in this book were, perhaps, the happiest of my life, when I was immersed in the forest world I had dreamed of as a child,” Goodall said about her book.

After arriving at Gombe to conduct her research, Goodall spent almost half a year trying to overcome the chimpanzees’ inherent fear of her. Whenever she accidentally got close, the chimps would run off into the undergrowth in a panic. In the early days, they wouldn’t even let her within 500 yards of them. 

There were days and weeks she saw no sign of the chimpanzees at all. “Nevertheless, those weeks did serve to acquaint me with the rugged terrain. My skin became hardened to the rough grasses of the valleys and my blood immune to the poison of the tsetse fly so that I no longer swelled hugely each time I was bitten. I became increasingly surefooted on the treacherous slopes, which were equally slippery whether they were bare or eroded, crusted with charcoal, or carpeted by dry, trampled grass. Gradually, too, I became familiar with many of the animal tracks in the five valleys that became my main work area,” Goodall wrote.

Goodall, 90, is a world-renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural world every single day.

Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, she is a global conservation, advocacy, animal welfare, research, and youth empowerment organization, including her global Roots & Shoots program. She is also the UN Messenger of Peace.

She is best known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees, transformative research that continues to this day as the longest-running wild chimpanzee study in the world.

Accumulation of her observations forced science to rethink its attitude toward animals. She proved that chimpanzees have the ability to solve complex problems, make and use tools for different purposes, and operate in complex social structures with elaborate communication. “It became increasingly clear that we are part of, and not separated from, the rest of the animal kingdom.” 

Goodall has worked extensively on climate action, human rights, conservation, and animal welfare issues for decades, and continues to be a central voice in the work to advance environmental progress.

Today, she is a global phenomenon spreading hope and turning it into a meaningful positive impact to create a better world for people, other animals, and the planet we share.

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