In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. Brimming with empathy and winning stories of Grow and her charges, "The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary" is an absorbing, big-hearted text that grapples with questions of just what man owes to the animals who are his nearest genetic relations.

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""The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary" is a true story of endurance and resilience, compassion, dedication and love. I knew the prison-like conditions of the medical research facility from which Gloria Grow rescued these chimpanzees; when I visited them at their new sanctuary I was moved to tears. Finally they had reached a secure haven where, gradually, they could recover from their years of torment. Andrew Westoll is a born story teller: "The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary", written with empathy and skill, tenderness and humour, involves us in a world few understand. And leaves us marvelling at the ways in which chimpanzees are so like us, deserve our help, and are entitled to our respect."
--Jane Goodall Ph.D., DBE, Founder - the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

"This book will make you think deeply about our relationship with great apes. It amazed me to discover the behaviors and feelings of the chimpanzees."
--Temple Grandin, author of "Animals in Translation

""This book is a wonder. Passionate, intelligent, moving and, above all, tremendously important, it illustrates the triumph of the wild spirit and offers surprising hope that the human animal might yet be redeemed. Think of Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" and J.M. Coetzee's "The Lives of Animals", and you'll have some idea of what it is you hold in your hands. It has been a long time since any author has inspired me to such extremes of compassion and humility."
--Barbara Gowdy, author of "The White Bone
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