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A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa

A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa

by Robert M Sapolsky (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Book-smart and more than a little naive, Robert Sapolsky left the comforts of college in the US for a research project studying a troop of baboons in Kenya. Whether he's relating his adventures with his neighbours, Masai tribesmen, or his experiences learning how to sneak up and dart suspicious baboons, Sapolsky combines irreverence and humour with the best credentials in his field. A Primate's Memoir is the culmination of over two decades of experience and research - an exhilarating, hilarious and daring memoir, and an astonishing masterpiece of the people and nature of Africa.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0099285770
ISBN 13: 9780099285779
Book Overview: One of the world's leading primatologists reinvents the traditional field research study with this exhilarating, hilarious and daring memoir of twenty-plus years studying a troop of baboons in Kenya.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for Aventis Prize for Science Books 2002 and Natural World Book of the Year 2002.

Media Reviews
One of the most engrossing, exhilarating and irreverent books on Africa and its wildlife ever published * Financial Times *
Smart, stylish, distinctive... A magnificent tale of morality among the hamfisted machiavellians * Independent *
Splendidly written and entertaining... ACE. Buy this book now * Scotsman *
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 * Newsweek *
One of the best scientist-writers of our time -- Oliver Sacks
Author Bio
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.