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No One Loved Gorillas More: Dian Fossey: Letters from the Mist

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The words "No One Loved Gorillas More" are the words put on Dian Fossey's tombstone after she was murdered. This book is her eulogy. It is composed of letters she wrote between 1966 and her death two days after Christmas, 1985. The letters are combined with more than a hundred color photographs of she and a reverential story of her life by journalist Camilla de la Bedoyere.

Dian spent most of her adult life in the study of the mountain gorilla. She loved those animals more than life herself, and it was her dedicated attempts to preserve them and protect their future that lead to her unexplained killing.

Her legacy lives on. Even with the tremendous upheavals in Rwanda, with the killing of a million or more people, the numbers of wild gorillas is growing. It can only be hoped that this book will help more people to understand what Dian stood and died for.

Diane Fossey has been one of my female science heroes ever since I was a little girl. This book gives an interesting view of Diane as a person. She was super dedicated to the Gorillas, but also had many personal demons. If you wanted an introspective view of this legend, I recommend this beautiful book.

About twenty years ago I did visit the mountain gorillas in what was, at that tome, called Zaire (today this is Congo). It was a flabbergasting experience. I always wanted to go back but.......still nowadays, the troubles in that part of N-E Congo are still going on. A few months ago I did notice a trip going to the gorillas from the Uganda-site, and I took the opportunity with both hands. At Travellers Rest in Kisoro I did see a copy of the concerning book. Waw, I wanted to have this very beautiful book too because "I do love them too, those magnificent animals"