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Sinopsis
Ralph is the stage name of Kumbu, a chimpanzee who was kidnapped in infancy and trained as a trapeze performer in the circus. As his debut performance approaches, primatology professor Dr. Jane Keller mounts a campaign to return Ralph to the wild. Meanwhile, an aging small-town janitor named Wilbur Trimble is fulfilling his lifelong dream of an African safari when he gets lost in the jungle and adopted by a band of chimpanzees. When the chimps discover that he has the Gift the ability to communicate telepathically, as they do they commission him to rescue a lost little one . . . named Kumbu. As the story builds to a climax on opening day of the circus, the chimpanzees have much to teach Wilbur about ecological reality.
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Stephen Wing gave up a 12-year career as a hitchhiker in 1990 to marry and settle in Atlanta. He now works as recycling coordinator at New Leaf Distributing Co. and senior editor of New Leaf s magazine Evolve! He is the author of two books of poetry and several dozen published essays on spiritual and environmental topics. In 2006 he was diagnosed with cancer and hospitalized with a rare reaction to chemotherapy. While in the hospital, under the influence of a life-threatening fever, he conceived the story that became Free Ralph! He considers it a gift of cancer, and credits it with helping him survive his ordeal.
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Tanzar of the Chimpanzees has returned from the jungle with a message from our hairy cousins: human evolution isn t finished yet. And if we want to save the chimpanzees and our other wild relatives from extinction, it s time for our next step! "Stephen Wing has written a comic epic in the tradition of Cervantes and Kurt Vonnegut . . . An utterly convincing philosophy of evolutionary ecology is the deepest layer of this profound and hilarious book." - Taylor Stoehr, professor of literature, U-Mass Free Ralph! is a delightful, provocative and profoundly entertaining plunge into the alternate reality of inter-species communication. I loved it. Free Ralph! just might free you. - Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Key to Solomon's Key, The Accidental Christ and other books
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Free Ralph!: An Evolutionary Fable
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Wind Eagle Pr, 2008
ISBN 10: 0979390702
ISBN 13: 9780979390708
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paperback. Condición: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: rev1516663648
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