"Jane Porter had just graduated from Central St. Martins with a scientific illustration degree when her father surprised her with an incredible opportunity. He wanted Jane to assist him in his research of African gorillas in the Congo rainforest for the rest of the year. It was one thing to spend your weekends sketching animals at the zoo, but to leave her life in London and go the the dangerous depths of the jungle where she'd be face-to-face with ferocious beasts and the possibility of being lost forever and who knows what else . . . It was reckless and dangerous, to say the least. She couldn't wait."