Shortly after Christmas 1985, the body of Dian Fossey was discovered in the remote but in the high mist-covered mountains of Rwanda where she had lived alone for years - her skull had been split open with a machete. She had become internationally known as an author and a scientist for her work on the threatened and ever-dwindling mountain gorillas of Central Africa. For all its spirit and dedications, her lonely life had been far from idyllic - she herself had been beaten up and raped; she became increasingly truculent with poachers, tourists and fellow scientists. By the time of her death the tall, good-looking woman who had come to Africa from America twenty years before was a deeply disturbed recluse. This is not only the story of the strange, obsessive woman who became one of the most famous naturalists of her time, but is also a compelling murder mystery.
- ISBN10 0701132329
- ISBN13 9780701132323
- Publish Date 25 April 1991 (first published 1 June 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Pages 351
- Language English