Fw: [EthologicalEthics] (GAPNews) EATING APES could be breakout book

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[EthologicalEthics] (GAPNews) EATING APES could be " breakout " book

 

 

> GAPNews

>

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

>

> May 27, 2003

>

> EATING APES PEGGED AS PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BREAKOUT BOOK

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> Eating Apes (University of California Press), the controversial and

> critically acclaimed book that examines the bushmeat crisis ravaging

Africa's great

> apes, has been picked by Publisher's Weekly as a potential " breakout " book

for

> Spring 2003.

>

> In a May 19 piece in Publisher's Weekly, Eating Apes was one of six titles

> pegged as likely to spur both strong sales and stronger word-of-mouth.

" Each

> year, a few titles from small, mid-sized and university presses generate

enough

> buzz to compete against books from larger publishers, " the story states.

" Store

> buyers have been responding strongly to this emotional issue - and the

book's

> disturbing photographs. "

>

> Eating Apes was written by Dale Peterson, who previously collaborated with

> Jane Goodall on books such as Visions of Caliban, Beyond Innocence, and

Africa

> in My Blood. Bushmeat activist Karl Ammann supplied the book's photographs

and

> an Afterword.

>

> Both Peterson and Ammann will make lecture appearances in the United

States,

> Canada and Europe over the next few months in support of the book.

>

> Eating Apes traces the origins of the bushmeat crisis, from a sustainable

> form of hunting throughout Equatorial Africa to a full-blown crisis that

has

> pushed chimpanzees, gorillas, and countless other species to the brink of

> extinction. The book reveals the deadly and often illegal association of

hunters with

> international logging firms, and also lays bare the inability of the

> conservation community to counter the threat.

>

> Eating Apes has already received positive reviews from The Economist and

> Publisher's Weekly, and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson said it

" sweeps

> across the broad issues of conservation and animal welfare that are linked

to

> human welfare and should be the concern of everyone everywhere. " Adds Jane

> Goodall: " It took great courage to gather and present this information.

You must

> read this book. "

>

> For more information, please contact the University of California Press at

> www.ucpress.edu or by phone at 1-510-642-4247.

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