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Light Shining Through the Mist

Light Shining Through the Mist

A Photobiography of Dian Fossey

About the Book

In 1966, with no experience or formal scientific training, Dian Fossey left the United States and set up a gorilla observation camp in the Virunga mountains of Africa. Sponsored by Dr. Louis Leakey, the 34-year-old Fossey had embarked on a 19-year project that began as a field study of gorillas but expanded into a labor of love and a mission to protect the magnificent species from extinction. No human ever came closer to the mysterious mountain gorillas than Fossey, but as her relationship with the animals grew, her fierce battle against poachers did also. Fossey was murdered in 1985, but her legacy endures. This dramatic story of her vital work is an important record for a new generation of readers.
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Photobiographies Series

Airborne
Helen's Eyes
Genius
Inventing the Future
Bull's Eye
Always Inventing
Bylines
Light Shining Through the Mist

About the Author

Tom Mathews
Tom Dewe Mathews is a film journalist who writes regularly for the Observer, the Guardian and Time Out. More by Tom Mathews
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