Дуглас Престон - Jennie

3819 48th Street NW

Washington, DC 20016

202-362-1993

Bonobo Protection Fund

Language Research Center

Georgia State University

University Plaza

Atlanta, GA 30303-3083

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

45 Inverness Drive

Englewood, CO 80112

303-790-2349

or

110 Gloucester

Primrose Hill

London NW1 8JA

U.K.

Friends of Washoe

P.O. Box 728

Ellensburg, WA 98926

The Gorilla Foundation

Box 620-530

Woodside, CA 94062

The Great Ape Project

P.O. Box 1023

Collingwood, Melbourne

Victoria, Australia 3066

The Orangutan Foundation International

822 South Wellesley Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90049

Projet de Protection des Gorilles

Howletts & Port Lymphe Foundation

Brazzaville BP 13977

Republique du Congo

or

John Aspinall’s Wildlife Sanctuaries

750 Lausanne Road

Los Angeles, CA 90077

Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Park

Bronx, NY 10460

World Wide Fund for Nature

World Wildlife Fund Switzerland

Forrlibuckstrasse 66

Postfach, 8037

Zurich, Switzerland

International Primate Protection League

P.O. Box 766

Summerville, SC 29484

803-871-2280

Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage

P.O. Box 11190

Chingola, Zambia

or c/o The Jane Goodall Institute

Many primatologists will recognize experiments, stories, and anecdotes in this book that were adapted from nonfiction accounts of raising chimpanzees in human families, observations of chimpanzees in the wild, and cognitive and linguistic studies of chimpanzees. I am obviously indebted to many works about chimpanzees, particularly the writings of Jane Goodall, Maurice Temerlin, Cathy Hayes, and Herbert S. Terrace. I would like to acknowledge my major sources here.

Goodall, Jane. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior . Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.

_______. In the Shadow of Man . Rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988.

_______. My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees . Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society, 1967.

_______. Through a Window . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990.

Hayes, C. The Ape in Our House . New York: Harper Brothers, 1951.

Linden, Eugene. Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments . New York: Times Books, 1986.

Montgomery, Sy. Walking with the Great Apes . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991.

Nichols, Michael, with contributions by Jane Goodall, George B. Schaller, and Mary G. Smith. The Great Apes: Between Two Worlds . Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society, 1993.

Premack, David, and Premack, Ann James. The Mind of an Ape . New York: Norton, 1983.

Raven, Henry C. “Meshie: The Child of a Chimpanzee,” Natural History , vol. 32, 1932.

_______. “Further Adventures of Meshie,” Natural History , vol. 33, 1933.

Rosen, S. I. Introduction to the Primates: Living and Fossil . Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

Temerlin. Maurice. Lucy: Growing Up Human . Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1972.

Terrace, Herbert S. Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

I owe a great debt to my agents, Tom Wallace and Matthew Snyder. I would like to thank my editor, Bob Wyatt, for his excellent work. I am deeply indebted to Mary G. Smith of the National Geographic Society for her enthusiastic support and excellent advice. I would particularly like to express my great appreciation to Dr. Douglas Schwartz, President of the School of American Research, for his support. I thank Stuart Woods and Lincoln Child for their helpful comments, and I am grateful for the editorial suggestions of the No Poets Society of Santa Fe. And I thank my father, Jerome Preston, Jr., for his very helpful advice, and my grandfather, Jerome Preston, Sr., for his great support.

I would like to thank Nina Root, Chairwoman of the Department of Library Services at the American Museum of Natural History, for allowing me access to the Raven papers and films. I would also like to thank the late Dr. Harold Shapiro of the American Museum for sharing with me his vivid reminiscences of Henry Raven and the chimpanzee called Meshie.

Finally, I want to thank my wife, Christine, for all her support.

The fictional characters in this novel are not based on real people and any resemblance to such is purely coincidental. As for the real people and organizations who appear by name in this novel, most of what is written about them is not true. Proxmire did not, for obvious reasons, award a Golden Fleece to the Jennie project. Walter Sullivan did not write an article about Jennie. Teddy Kennedy did not meet Jennie. Nor did the Boston Globe , the Boston Herald-Traveler, Esquire magazine, Psychology Today magazine, or any other magazine or newspaper report on Jennie. Jennie did not appear on the Ed Sullivan show. I apologize for any negative opinions expressed by fictional characters about real people. The reader will be able to separate fact from fiction in these instances.