Sapolsky, Robert M. <br/><br/>
A primate's memoir:  a neuroscientist's unconventional life among the baboons 
/ Robert M. Sapolsky 
 - New York  : Scribner  , 2001. 
 - 304 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> While Sapolsky's primate observations are always fascinating, his thoughts on Africa and Africans are even more compelling. As funny and irreverent as a good ol' boy regaling his friends with vacation-from-hell stories, Sapolsky can also be disarmingly emotional as in his clear-headed tribute to late gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, and his final chapters, which reveal his rage and impotence as he watched his baboons succumb to a horrific plague. Filled with cynicism and awe, passion and humor, this memoir is both an absorbing account of a young man's growing maturity and a tribute to the continent that, despite its troubles and extremes, held him in its thrall. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780743202411 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00063522 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Baboons----Behavior----Anecdotes----Africa, East
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>East Africa---Description and travel
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QL737.P93  / S27 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>599.8 SAP