A Primate's Memoir : a Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Mike Chamberlain.
"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" -- from publisher's web site.
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PUBLISHED
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Media, Inc., 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 12 sound discs (ca. 15 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781452648538
1452648530
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Chamberlain, Mike.
Tantor Media, Inc.
SUBJECTS
Sapolsky, Robert M. -- Travel -- Africa, East -- Anecdotes.
Baboons -- Behavior -- Africa, East -- Anecdotes.
Africa, East -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.