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One of the absolute best travel/adventure books I've ever read. Witty, informative, engrossing, memorable.
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Accessible tales of a scientist's long-term studies of a baboon troop in Kenya. It's a mix of his experiences with the baboons and of his travels around Eastern Africa and encounters/relationships with the people. I liked how Sapolsky structured the book to follow his own development as a scientist and a man--especially his early identification with Benjamin, an adolescent baboon in whom he recognized the same "festering adolescent insecurities" he was just getting to the other side of in his ea
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Although the author's experiences entail more than just baboons, this is a fascinating account of a scientist in the wilds of Kenya during the late 1970's. Deservedly earns a spot on the list of antroplogy related tomes.
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