Louis Leakey - Books By Louis Leakey

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.