This is the story of the next twenty-one years as Sapolsky slowly infiltrates and befriends a troop of Savannah baboons. Alone in the middle of the Serengeti with no electricity, running water or telephone, and surviving countless scams, culinary atrocities and a surreal kidnapping, Sapolsky becomes ever more enamoured with his adopted baboon troop – unique and compelling characters in their own right – and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevails.

Author – Robert M. Sapolsky

Publisher – Penguin Random House