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    Of Bonobos and Men: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

    By Deni Ellis Béchard

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    Bonobos have captured the public imagination in recent years, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don’t kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to building peaceful coalitions and sharing resources has much to teach us, particularly at a time when our violent ways have pushed them to the brink of extinction. Animated by a desire to understand bonobos and learn how to save them, acclaimed author Deni Ellis Béchard traveled into the Congo.

    Of Bonobos and Men is the account of this journey. Along the way, we see how partnerships between Congolese and Westerners, with few resources but a common purpose and respect for indigenous knowledge, have resulted in the protection of vast swaths of the rainforest. And we discover how small solutionsfound through openness, humility, and the principle that poverty does not equal ignorance”are often most effective in tackling our biggest challenges. Combining elements of travelogue, journalism, and natural history, this incomparably rich book takes the reader not only deep into the Congo, but also into our past and future, revealing new ways to save the environment and ourselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilkweed Editions
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781571318497
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    Of Bonobos and Men: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
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    Deni Ellis Béchard

    Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of Vandal Love (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book); Of Bonobos and Men (Grand Prize winner of the Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism); Cures for Hunger, a memoir about his bank robber father (selected as one of the best memoirs of 2012 by Amazon.ca); and Into the Sun (Midwest Book Award for literary fiction, selected by CBC Radio Canada as one of 2017’s Incontournables and one of the most important books of the year to be read by Canada’s political leaders). He has reported from India, Cuba, Rwanda, Colombia, Iraq, the Congo, and Afghanistan. He has been a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award and has been featured in Best Canadian Essays 2017, and his photojournalism has been exhibited in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. His articles, fiction, and photos have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the LA Times, Salon, Reuters, The Walrus, Le Devoir, Vanity Fair Italia, The Herald Scotland, the Huffington Post, The Harvard Review, the National Post, and Foreign Policy Magazine. His most recent titles include Kuei, My Friend, an engaging book of letters that discuss racism and reconcilliation, My Favourite Crime, a book of journalistic essays that explore our sense of family, of the world, and of ourselves, and White, a riveting novel that explores whiteness, modern humanitarianism, and the lies of American exceptionalism and white supremacy.

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