A Primate's Memoir
Love, Death and Baboons
$34.21
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2019
Summary
The mesmerising story of Robert Sapolsky’s twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112306 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529112303 |
| Author: | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 23mm |
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One of the best scientist-writers of our time
One of the most engrossing, exhilarating and irreverent books on Africa and its wildlife ever published * Financial Times *Smart, stylish, distinctive… A magnificent tale of morality among the hamfisted machiavellians * Independent *Splendidly written and entertaining… ACE. Buy this book now * Scotsman *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 * Newsweek *One of the best scientist-writers of our time – Oliver SacksVery funny… Bill Bryson turned naturalist * Conde Nast Traveller *This engrossing account of Robert Sapolsky’s life in science…is brilliantly informative…and heartbreakingly acute – Norman Rush, author of ‘Mating’
About The Author
Robert M. Sapolsky
Robert M. Sapolsky is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grant’. His previous books include the international bestseller Behave- The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and A Primate’s Memoir.
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