{"product_id":"a-primates-memoir-love-death-and-baboons","title":"A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBehave\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrooklyn-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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                    '\u003ci\u003eA Primate's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is the closest the baboon is likely to come - and it's plenty close enough - to having its own Iliad' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhilarating, hilarious and poignant, \u003ci\u003eA Primate's Memoir \u003c\/i\u003eis a uniquely honest window into the coming-of-age of one of our greatest scientific minds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Sapolsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40541338730674,"sku":"9781529112306","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/27149_611d403b667155.20385342_9781529112306.jpg?v=1676069528","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/a-primates-memoir-love-death-and-baboons","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}