CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky (CD-Audio, 2013)

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 remote 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 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. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
876
Narrator(s)
Mike Chamberlain
Author Biography
Robert M. Sapolsky is the author of books including A Primate's Memoir and The Trouble with Testosterone, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Along with animation and video game characters, Mike performs narration and voices promos for television. He lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.
Format
CD-Audio
Language
English
Author(s)
Robert M. Sapolsky
Date of Publication
10/12/2013
Format Details
MP3 Format
Subject
Travel Writing
Imprint
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition Statement
Unabridged
Country of Publication
United States

Best Selling in Books, CDs, DVDs

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books, CDs, DVDs

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Books, CDs, DVDs