A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.

â€œI had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,â€ writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientistâ€™s coming-of-age in remote Africa.

An exhilarating account of Sapolskyâ€™s twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primateâ€™s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengetiâ€”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 subjectsâ€”unique and compelling characters in their own rightâ€”and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him.

By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primateâ€™s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber YES758308
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2002-03-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780743202411

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

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Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	YES758308
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2002-03-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780743202411