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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2002
- ISBN
- 9780743202411
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0743202414
ISBN-13
9780743202411
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1785521
Product Key Features
Book Title
Primate's Memoir : a Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Animals / Primates, Africa / General, Adventurers & Explorers, Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology, Africa / East, Science & Technology
Genre
Nature, Travel, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
9.4 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
Susan Salter ReynoldsLos Angeles TimesSapolsky has a huge appetite for life...He writes exactly as if he's telling stories around a fire in the bush., While Sapolsky's primate observations are always fascinating, his thoughts on Africa and Africans are even more compelling. As funny and irreverent as a good ol' boy regaling his friends with vacation-from-hell stories, Sapolsky can also be disarmingly emotional . . . Filled with cynicism and awe, passion and humor, this memoir is both an absorbing account of a young man's growing maturity and a tribute to the continent that, despite its troubles and extremes, held him in its thrall., [Sapolsky] has a huge appetite for life, fed by his Brooklyn humor, a death-is-just-around-the-corner kind of irony. He writes exactly as if he's telling stories around a fire in the bush. And drinking. And gesturing . . ., Lynn YarrisNewsdayA Primate's Memoirflies along like a well-paced and finely crafted novel...[giving] us a cast of characters as memorably colorful as any that Dickens ever created., Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Sapolsky has a huge appetite for life...He writes exactly as if he's telling stories around a fire in the bush., Lynn Yarris Newsday A Primate's Memoir 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., [Sapolsky's] stories are remarkable. . . . A Primate's Memoir is the closest the baboon is likely to come--and it's plenty close enough--to having its own Iliad ., Flies along like a well-paced and finely crafted novel. [Sapolsky's] stories about the Masai are terrific--what with the kidnapping, the blood-drinking and the blow-darting . . . A Primate's Memoir is not set up for a sequel, but reads are most likely to want one., Rob Nixon The New York Times Book Review A Primate's Memoir is the closest the baboon is likely to come...to having its own Iliad., Rob NixonThe New York Times Book ReviewA Primate's Memoiris the closest the baboon is likely to come...to having its own Iliad.
Dewey Decimal
599.8/6515/09676
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Acknowledgments Part 1. The Adolescent Years: When I First Joined the Troop The Baboons: The Generations of Israel Zebra Kabobs and a Life of Crime The Revenge of the Liberals The Masai Fundamentalist and My Debut as a Social Worker The Coca-Cola Devil Teaching Old Men About Maps Memories of Blood: The East African Wars Part 2: The Subadult Years The Baboons: Saul in the Wilderness Samwelly Versus the Elephants The First Masai Zoology and National Security: A Shaggy Hyena Story The Coup Hearing Voices at the Wrong Time Sudan Part 3: Tenuous Adulthood The Baboons: The Unstable Years Ol' Curly Toes and the King of Nubian-Judea The Penguins of Guyana When Baboons Were Falling Out of the Trees The Old White Man The Elevator The Mound Behind the 7-Eleven Part 4: Adulthood The Baboons: Nick The Raid Ice Joseph The Wonders of Machines in a Land Where They Are Still Novel: The Blind Leading the Blind Who's on First, What's on Second The Last Warriors The Plague
Synopsis
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 savanna 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 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 Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes 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., 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., "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 Memoirinterweaves 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 Memoiris a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
LC Classification Number
QL737.P93
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