{"product_id":"a-primates-memoir-robert-m-sapolsky-9780743202411","title":"A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, \u003ci\u003eA Primate's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns hilarious and poignant, \u003ci\u003eA Primate's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert M. Sapolsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0743202414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743202411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.92w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/03\/2002 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2005 pg. 27","brand":"Robert M. Sapolsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050927452415,"sku":"9780743202411","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8aa316b9-18e0-44e8-b32b-2be3b8e3d7a1.jpg?v=1685010065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-primates-memoir-robert-m-sapolsky-9780743202411","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}