A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the BaboonsSimon and Schuster, 1 нояб. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 304 In 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. "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. 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 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. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers. |
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Saul in the Wilderness | 95 |
Samwelly Versus the Elephants | 105 |
The First Masai | 117 |
The Coup | 127 |
Hearing Voices at the Wrong Time | 135 |
Tenuous Adulthood | 167 |
The Unstable Years | 169 |
The Elevator | 213 |
The Mound Behind the 7Eleven | 219 |
Adulthood | 231 |
Nick | 233 |
The Raid | 243 |
Ice | 249 |
Joseph | 255 |
The Blind Leading the Blind | 259 |
Ol Curly Toes and the King of NubianJudea | 177 |
The Penguins of Guyana | 187 |
When Baboons Were Falling Out of the Trees | 197 |
The Old White Man | 209 |
Whos on First Whats on Second | 263 |
The Last Warriors | 269 |
The Plague | 275 |
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