Books By Louis Leakey
Louis's books are listed below. The gaps between books are filled by too many articles to list. It was Louis who began the Leakey tradition of publishing in Nature.
| First Publication Date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | The Stone Age Culture of Kenya Colony | Written in 1929. Illustrated by Frida Leakey. |
| 1934 | Adam's Ancestors: The Evolution of Man and His Culture | Multiple editions with rewrites, the 4th in 1955. Illustrated by Mary Leakey. Book reviews: |
| 1935 | The Stone Age races of Kenya | Proposes Homo kanamensis. |
| 1936 | Kenya: Contrasts and Problems | Written in 1935. |
| 1936 | Stone Age Africa: an Outline of Prehistory in Africa | Ten chapters consisting of the ten Munro Lectures delivered in 1936 by Louis to Edinburgh University and intended by him as a textbook. Illustrated by Mary. |
| 1937 | White African: an Early Autobiography | Louis described it as a "pot-boiler" written in 1936 for Hodder & Stoughton. |
| 1951 | The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa | With Wilfrid Le Gros Clark. Volume I of the series Fossil Mammals of Africa published by the British Museum of Natural History. |
| 1951 | Olduvai Gorge: A Report on the Evolution of the Hand-Axe Culture in Beds I-IV | Started in 1935. Names the Olduwan Culture. |
| 1952 | Mau Mau and the Kikuyu | Online at Quaestia. |
| 1953 | Animals in Africa | Photographs by Ylla. |
| 1954 | Defeating Mau Mau | With Peter Schmidt. Online at Quaestia. |
| 1965 | Olduvai Gorge: A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna, 1951-61 | Volume 1. |
| 1969 | Unveiling Man's Origins | With Vanne Morris Goodall. |
| 1969 | Animals of East Africa: The Wild realm | |
| 1970 | Olduvai Gorge, 1965-1967 | |
| 1974 | By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932-1951 | Written in 1972 and published posthumously. Louis finished writing on the day before his death. |
| 1977 | The Southern Kikuyu before 1903 | Published posthumously. The manuscript remained in Louis' safe for decades for lack of a publisher. It was 3 volumes. He refused to follow editorial advice and shorten it. |
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