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`Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey,' by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman; Warner (282 pages, $26.95).

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19991013
Author:Gossett, Polly Paddock

She grew up in England during World War II, a child enchanted by nature and the Tarzan stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of her first toys, prophetically, was a stuffed chimpanzee.

By the time Jane Goodall sailed for Africa at age 23, she knew she was about to meet her destiny. Gazing toward the great continent that loomed on the horizon, she recalls, ``my belief in a great Power was strengthened _ a Power outside, yet including each one of us and all the wonders of the world. I think it was then that I made an unconscious commitment to Africa.''

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