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Wild Life - Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs (Hardcover)
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Wild Life - Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs (Hardcover)
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Total price: R659
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Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island
camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite
Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked
over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her
parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a
pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on
any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived
in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the
far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social
hierarchy. Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing
truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as
they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird
whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious
trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous
primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia
and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader and adventurer, she
was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses
than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey
players. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds
into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By
turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the
story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to
figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.
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