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MySanAntonio, April 13, 2013
...returned to Gabon with the aim of verifying his previous findings. Du Chaillu is initially described by author Monte Reel as being a plucky underdog desperately trying to carve out his own heroic destiny. He ultimately finds success, but also makes some...
New York Times, April 11, 2013
..., by Monte Reel. (Doubleday, $26.95.) In the age of Darwin, the discovery of gorillas caused a sensation. DOUBLE FEATURE, by Owen King. (Scribner, $26.) The hero of Kings energetic and precise...
New York Times, April 5, 2013
...Our planet nowadays is a well-explored place, where major zoological discoveries are exceedingly rare. True, there are countless kinds of insects and other tiny fauna still undescribed and unnamed in the Amazon and elsewhere; but a new large-bodied...
New York Times, April 5, 2013
...previous podcasts from the Book Review. This week in The New York Times Book Review, David Quammen reviews Monte Reel’s “Between Man and Beast,” the story of the 19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who returned from Africa with evidence that a...
Austin American Statesman, March 30, 2013
...clearly has endings on his mind, which he addresses with fearsome brio and wit. Between Man and Beast Monte Reel Doubleday, $26.95 Former Washington Post reporter Monte Reel offers a fascinating sidelight on the perennial debate of man’s origins. ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 26, 2013
...dream creatures” living in the West African jungles. In “Between Man and Beast” (Doubleday, 331 pages, $26.95), Monte Reel follows the life of Paul du Chaillu, an unlikely explorer/scientist whose accounts of his upriver travels in Gabon ignited...
Salon, March 24, 2013
...main character, Professor Challenger, thought by many to be based on the real-life physiologist William Rutherford. But as Monte Reel persuasively argues in his equally ripping (and far more intellectually satisfying) another likely model for Challenger...
New Scientist, January 10, 2013
...the ethics of smart drugs by Barbara Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta Oxford University Press. Out in March Monte Reel tells the story of 19th-century anthropologist Paul Du Chaillu, the first outsider to collect hard evidence for the existence...
Eurasia Review, November 20, 2012
...http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/doug_tompkins. Hereafter cited as interview with Jimmy Langman. [7] Interview with Jimmy Langman. [8] Monte Reel, “Argentine Land Fight Divides Environmentalists, Rights Activists,”...
Council on Hemispheric Affairs, November 19, 2012
...http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/doug_tompkins. Hereafter cited as interview with Jimmy Langman. [7] Interview with Jimmy Langman. [8] Monte Reel, “Argentine Land Fight Divides Environmentalists, Rights Activists,”...


