Jane Goodall

I have been reading a book titled Jane Goodall since December. I am loving this book but have read many books while working my way through this one. I am now on page 619 and closer to the end. There are parts that read like a textbook and parts about real life. I am liking both aspects but find it hard to stay with it sometimes and just want a story to read inbetween. Jane Goodall is one of my heroes and I love that Dale Peterson has written about her with love and admiration but also brutal honesty.
Here is a little section from this book..... Jane has just had a terrible few days and also isn't feeling well...and gets into a cab and here is what happens....


On her way back from the last lobbying event of the last day, she settled into the back of a taxi and released an enormous sigh, and the taxi driver in front asked what the problem was. She said she was exhausted from a day of lobbying.
"Oh--what you lobbying about?"
She told him, and he turned around in his cab to look at her, whereupon his round face opened into a grin of amazement: "My God! You're Jane Goodall in my cab!"
The driver was African American, a nature lover, and he wanted to talk to his hero, driving with his head turned around so much that Jane was afraid he would crash. She made him stop so she could climb in the front seat, and they had a long and happy conversation about chimps and wildlife. "He is so nice," Jane wrote in a brief note to her National Geographic friend Neva Folk. "So interested. Wants for his kids to be interested." In the end the driver charged her only half fare, and she promised to find him some wildlife videotapes. Perhaps Neva could locate something at the Geographic offices, Jane thought, and she concluded with an uplifting idea: "The world has such wonderful people. It is NOT all bad."