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A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Scribner
March 2002
304 pages
ISBN: 0743202414
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Non-Fiction Memoir
"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew
up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain
gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting
chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study
of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's
Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry
commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in
the wilds of the Serengeti -- for man and beast alike. Over
two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint
encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the
encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest
vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented
physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore
enamored of his subjects -- unique and compelling characters
in their own right -- and he returns to them summer after
summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a
magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
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