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Review ------ Rob Nixon "The New York Times Book Review" "A Primate's Memoir" is the closest the baboon is likely to come...to having its own Iliad. Susan Salter Reynolds "Los Angeles Times" Sapolsky has a huge appetite for life...He writes exactly as if he's telling stories around a fire in the bush. Lynn Yarris "Newsday" "A Primate's Memoir" flies along like a well-paced and finely crafted novel...[giving] us a cast of characters as memorably colorful as any that Dickens ever created. Rob Nixon"The New York Times Book Review""A Primate's Memoir" is the closest the baboon is likely to come...to having its own Iliad. Susan Salter Reynolds"Los Angeles Times"Sapolsky has a huge appetite for life...He writes exactly as if he's telling stories around a fire in the bush. Lynn Yarris"Newsday""A Primate's Memoir" flies along like a well-paced and finely crafted novel...[giving] us a cast of characters as memorably colorful as any that Dickens ever created. Rob Nixon "The New York Times Book Review""A Primate's Memoir" is the closest the baboon is likely to come...to having its own Iliad. Lynn Yarris "Newsday""A Primate's Memoir" flies along like a well-paced and finely crafted novel...[giving] us a cast of characters as memorably colorful as any that Dickens ever created. Susan Salter Reynolds "Los Angeles Times" Sapolsky has a huge appetite for life...He writes exactly as if he's telling stories around a fire in the bush. Rob Nixon "The New York Times Book Review" "A Primate's Memoir" is the closest the baboon is likely to come...to having its own Iliad. Synopsis -------- The author offers a memoir of his two decades in the field studying Kenyan baboons as he describes the members of the baboon troop and their behavior and his interaction with the neighboring Masai tribe.