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The Leakeys : a biography / Mary Bowman-Kruhm

Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Greenwood Press, 2005

XVI, 150 S. ; 25cm

Greenwood biographies

Timeline: Significant events in the lives of the Leakeys -- A fact-finding mission (forward to the past) -- In the beginning ... (Louis, 1925-1933) -- Positive choices, negative voices (Mary, 1913-1936; Louis, 1933-1936) -- War and children : real time (1937-1946) -- Peace and turmoil, personal and political (1947-1958) -- Human history carved in bone (1959-1971) -- Skull drudgery and skullduggery (1972-1977) -- Contentious, contention, and a critical condition (1978-1988) -- Burning his tusks behind him (1989-2003) -- But wait, there's more (2004 and beyond)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index

0-313-32985-0

 

f Biographie  Leakey, Familie  Leakey, Louis S. B., 1903-1972  Leakey, Mary D., 1913-1996  Leakey, Richard E., 1944-2022  Kenia  Paläanthropologie  Geschichte 1925-2004