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. 'One of the best scientist-writers of
our time' Oliver Sacks 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. '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 Exhilarating,
hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a uniquely honest
window into the coming-of-age of one of our greatest scientific
minds.
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