Books written by Dale Peterson

  • All Things Bright and Beautiful Cath

    All Things Bright and Beautiful Cath

  • Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People
    Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People

    We share 99% of our genes with chimpanzees, and our relations with them epitomize both our kinship with and our alienation from the rest of the natural world. In this...

  • A Mad People’s History of Madness
    A Mad People’s History of Madness

    A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony...

  • A Mad People’s History of Madness
    A Mad People’s History of Madness

    He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.

  • The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall
    The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall

    The more than 100 original pieces included in this inspirational collection give us a sense of her amazing reach and the power of the “Jane effect.”

  • Eating Apes
    Eating Apes

    Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas.

  • The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
    The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness

    With careful detail, The Ghosts of Gombe reveals for the first time the full story of day-to-day life in Goodall’s wilderness camp—the people and the animals, the stresses and excitements, the social conflicts and cultural alignments, ...

  • Elephant Reflections
    Elephant Reflections

    In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries.