{"product_id":"a-primates-memoir","title":"A Primate's Memoir","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.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841118351565,"sku":"9780743202411","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_537c2170-25f0-4784-8d0c-e04856c51f83.jpg?v=1792003054","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/a-primates-memoir","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}