Travel to Africa

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

Format: Paperback
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
ReleaseDate: 05 March, 2002
Publisher: Scribner
Rating:

One of my favorite books this year

I came to love the baboons he observed over the course of many years; each has a distinctive personality and way of interacting unique to that inidividual. With healthy doses of humor, Sapolsky takes the reader on his journeys in Africa, learning not only about the baboons he studies, but about himself, about Africans and Africa (a super book just to learn more about that continent), and ultimately about how we humans are not so far from the primates he studies as maybe we'd like to believe. However, much of the book doesn't center on the baboons, but on humans, and how we are to each other.
Immensely readable, highly enjoyable, and at times heart-breaking. I've given this book to my friends over and over.

Wonderful Book!
A Primate's Memoir is not your typical intense intellectual read by any means, but if you're in the mood for a good read - pick this one up. There are not enough good things to say about this book.

A Primate's Memoir
One of those books that opens up Africa with all of it's charm and troubles, and reflects back to us how actually close we are to our baboon cousins. This is a wonderful book.

Related products:
click image or link for details on these Africa travel books.