Wild life dispatches from a childhood of baboons and button-downs
"Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She...
| Main Author: | Roberts, Keena (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Gorillaman and fifty tiny ballerinas
- The first three times I almost died
- A dead chicken and an offer of marriage
- Don't bring your beer shirt to show-and-tell
- The African night is long and dark
- Snakes and cakes
- Stranded in Xamashuro
- One hundred cases of beer and a man-eating crocodile
- Pearl Jam and other things I didn't know
- Can we swim away from this party?
- Baboon identification and other hidden talents
- There are no doctors here
- The elf princess plays lacrosse
- Finding the moon on Earth
- High school waterhole
- The hippo situation is grim
- One unhappy cat
- We're just going to make a run for it
- The leopard attack
- The infection rate reaches 36%
- I am American
- The other spot at Harvard
- A bear just doing his bear thing
- Extreme driving in a broken Toyota
- Blood and dust and Botswana sky
- Epilogue: Goodbye, Narnia.