
Gorilla Tactics by Greg Cummings – Review
Written in the style of narrative nonfiction, Gorilla Tactics (How to Save a Species) starts off with the author’s experience of trying to save Mountain Gorillas (not physically but through awareness). Instead of this plight, he and the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund team are caught up in a horrifying war in Rwanda. (Early galley review.) After all, only a few hundred mountain gorillas remain in these high mountains of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo. I would like to know more about the town of Kigali in Rwanda, as there was no descriptions, bar the decimation of the town after looting. The same with the Virunga Volcanoes. The writing is otherwise personal, real and interesting. A gorilla-mapping mission, with Arthur C Clarke and a Space Shuttle of NASA, was supposed to be the plan for the better publicity of the mountain gorilla…
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