Written in 1988 by a former Editor-in-Chief of Esquire, this book explores the life of "Gorillas in the Mist"'s Dian Fossey, who lived with and researched the last remaining mountain gorillas in Rwanda. From over two hundred interviews, Harold Hayes recounts the facts and stories that capture the essence of Fossey the researcher and Fossey the woman, as well as that of the animals she gave her life to save.