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

A Primate's Memoir is a captivating account of a young scientist's journey into the heart of Africa's Serengeti, where he embarks on an unprecedented 21-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons.

With wry humor and poignant prose, Sapolsky recounts his experiences surviving culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, all while witnessing the encroachment of tourism on unspoiled Africa.

Through his groundbreaking research, Sapolsky becomes evermore enamored of his subjects - unique and compelling characters in their own right - and returns to them summer after summer until tragedy finally prevents him.

This memoir is both an absorbing account of a young man's growing maturity and a tribute to the continent that held him in its thrall.