| A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Contributor(s): Sapolsky, Robert M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743202414 ISBN-13: 9780743202411 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: In an exhilarating account of his 21-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, Robert Sapolsky 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology - Nature | Animals - Primates - Travel | Africa - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00063522 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.92" W x 8.08" (0.61 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - East Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. "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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sapolsky, Robert M.: - Robert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate's Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He lives in San Francisco. |