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Title: It's a memoir.
Review: Very disappointed; I feel I wasted my money and time. I purchased the book based on a piece on NPR. I guess I misunderstood. I was looking for something more informative, educational and with much more about the babooons. Probably partly my fault. I should have known from the title; it's a memoir.I didn't do a page count, but it left me with the feeling that pages dedicated to life with the baboons were in the minority.It wasn't entertaining, interesting, or well-written enough to be a good novel. It wasn't educational or informational enough to be good non-fiction. There are great books, both fiction and non, about life experiences in Africa and also great books by/about primatologists and their work. In my opinion, this book isn't very good as either.Even as a memoir I didn't care for it, but it seems that most of the other reviewers did. The book jacket artwork is very nice.
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