I skimmed it and it is an extraordinary and chillingly true autobiography. And “Cult: Following My Escape and Return to the Children of God,” by Bexy Cameron. It is brilliant and I know the author, Imran Ahmad. “The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West,” to remind me to reread. Doctor Dolittle and Tarzan led me to dream about living with animals in Africa.”
I read every book about animals I could find. “There was no TV when I was a child,” says the primatologist Jane Goodall, author (most recently) of “The Book of Hope.” “I learned from books - and nature.