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Academic & Professional Books  Mammals  Primates

A Primate's Memoir Love, Death and Baboons

Biography / Memoir
By: Robert M Sapolsky(Author)
371 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Vintage
A Primate's Memoir
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Discover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the New York Times bestselling author of Behave.

Brooklyn-born Robert Sapolsky grew up wishing he could live in the primate diorama in the Museum of Natural History. At school he wrote fan letters to primatologists and even taught himself Swahili, all with the hope of one day joining his primate brethren in Africa. But when, at the age of twenty-one, Sapolky's dream finally comes true he discovers that the African bush bears little resemblance to the tranquillity of a museum.

This is the story of the next twenty-one years as Sapolsky slowly infiltrates and befriends a troop of Savannah baboons. Alone in the middle of the Serengeti with no electricity, running water or telephone, and surviving countless scams, culinary atrocities and a surreal kidnapping, Sapolsky becomes ever more enamoured with his adopted baboon troop – unique and compelling characters in their own right – and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevails.

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Robert Sapolsky is Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. He lives in San Francisco

Biography / Memoir
By: Robert M Sapolsky(Author)
371 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Vintage
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"One of the best scientist-writers of our time"
– Oliver Sacks

"A Primate's Memoir is the closest the baboon is likely to come – and it's plenty close enough – to having its own Iliad"
New York Times Review of Books

"A Primate's Memoir flies along like a well-paced and finely crafted novel [...] [giving] us a cast of characters as memorably colorful as any that Dickens ever created."
– Lynn Yarris, Newsday

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