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A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa

Door Robert M. Sapolsky

Categorie
Afrika
Boeknummer
#375048-XJ24
Titel
A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
Auteur
Sapolsky, Robert M.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Random House
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0099285770
ISBN13
9780099285779
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes Robert Sapolsky in this riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. Upon graduating from college, a booksmart and naive Sapolsky leaves the comforts of the Northeastern United States for the very first time, to join a baboon troop in Kenya as a young transfer male'. An expert in primate behaviour, Sapolsky sets out to study the relationship between stress and disease. As he observes the Machiavellian politics of the troop, giving the primates biblical names and pinpointing his favourite (Benjamin) and his nemesis (Nebuchadnezzar), he also immerses himself in the society of the neighbouring Masai tribesmen and ventures far from his camp on a s... (Lees verder)eries of jaw-dropping adventures. Combining irreverence and humour with the best credentials in his field, Sapolsky writes as originally and vividly about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs. A Primate's Memoir is the culmination of over two decades of experience and research - an astonishing masterpiece from the unique talent Oliver Sacks has called 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.'
Pagina's
304
Conditie
Goed — Blind stampoed book plate on half title.
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