To commemorate Anita Albus's 80th birthday: A new richly illustrated volume on the life of apes
Following on from her successful books on rare birds, flowers, and butterflies, Anita Albus devotes herself to our closest relatives: apes. The 'business' she writes of is more moving than ever: we learn of the orangutang's gentleness, experience tyrannical male baboons and bonobos, whose communal life is based above all on the motto 'Make love not war'. As always, Albus takes us on an extensive journey, from the ancient Egyptians to the rain forests of Borneo to Europe. And as always she combines knowledge about nature and history with the exacting, loving gaze of an artist, who constantly lets nature's magic speak for itself. For this opulently illustrated volume she has chosen 22 colourful images from Buffon's legendary Histoire naturelle.
'Not just the most beautiful book of the year, but one of the cleverest.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sonnenfalter und Mondmotten.
