Songs of the Gorilla Nation
My Journey Through Autism
This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.”In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment when, as a young woman, she entered the Seattle Zoo and immediately became fascinated with the gorillas.Having suffered from a lifelong inability to relate to people in a meaningful way, Dawn was surprised to find herself irresistibly drawn to these great primates. By observing them and, later, workin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4000-8092-2
- EAN: 9781400080922
- Produktnummer: 15723367
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 290 KB
Über den Autor
DAWN PRINCE-HUGHES received her M.A. and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary anthropology from the Universität Herisau in Switzerland and is an instructor in the department of anthropology at Western Washington University. She is the author of Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and the editor of Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism, and is the executive chair of ApeNet, a nonprofit organization.
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