James Michael Dorsey's Baboons for Lunch is an explorer's tale, a series of accounts of his travels to far-off-the-radar places to seek out and understand the world's vanishing cultures and peoples. The book will appeal to:readers of National Geographic, AFAR magazine, Smithsonian magazine, and other publications that emphasize discovery and exploration in travelArmchair travelersWorld travelers looking for fresh experiences in a shrinking but always fascinating wor...

Baboons are some of the biggest members of the monkey family. From food to homes to behavior, learn the facts on these tailless primates!

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.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 alongs...

EZRA POUND (1885–1972) has been called a poetic visionary, and “the inventor of modern English poetry.”Pound's lyric genius, superb technique, and profound insights ensured his reputation as one of the few men who throughout the centuries have kept poetry alive, ever growing and relevant.In the early twentieth century, he was famous for the generosity with which he championed the work of such major contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams...

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons."I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in Africa.

I love you more than a baboon’s bum, a kangaroo’s bum, a slimy slug’s bum!Stuffed full of all sorts of animal bums and celebrating love in all it's wonderful shapes and sizes, this hilarious new picture book is sure to have little ones, and big ones, laughing with pure glee.Featuring cheeky illustrations from the incredible Ben Whitehouse and with stellar rhyming text throughout, welcome to the brilliantly silly world of I LOVE YOU MORE THAN A BABOON'S BUM!...

The amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons—and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.In 1972, renowned anthropologist Shirley C. Strum traveled to Kenya to study the origins of human aggression through observing baboons. What Dr. Strum discovered completely defied her expectations, scientific notions about baboons, and even well-established assumptions about primate behavior writ larg...

John the Baboon is a warm and humorous children's story about a clever baboon who likes doing things differently. While the other baboons run up and down a steep mountain cliff, John prefers sliding down on his bum. The others laugh at him, but when a hungry leopard appears, John's unusual way of doing things helps save the entire troop.The adventure continues when the baboons visit a nearby orange farm, where juicy oranges, barking dogs, and a very angry farmer le...

A forbidden love story with animal antics to upset the normal order of things! (Or, a Cinderella story with a difference…)Val Muffet is a Cit—a rich, well-educated, beautifully-mannered man, but definitely not one of the ton, despite being invited to the Trengrouse Ball.Lady Kerenza Trengrouse's family is amongst the great and the good of the land, and she expects to marry a lord. An earl, at least!What could bring these two to care about each othe...

Eugene Marais spent three years living in the South African wilderness in close daily contact with a troop of baboons. He later described this as the happiest, most content time of his troubled life. This period produced two works which are testament to his research and conclusions; they have very different histories. Firstly, there was a series of articles written in Afrikaans for the newspaper 'Die Vaderland'. They were then published in book form under the title 'Burgers van die Berge',...

A Conan the Barbarian inspired tale of adventure."Even gods die."Tyrannical magic has sent the world into turmoil. The new king searches for ancient artifacts to copy their powers. The Golden Hind defies him. Freyjrulf, aging mercenary, kingslayer, and infamous Stinger of the Scorpion Nine, should have no more reason to involve himself in this conflict with the death of the old king. But as a new mage, Leukos, joins the king's army, Freyjrulf knows his journey is f...

A sharp, satirical journey through a neon-lit dystopia where truth battles falsehood, led by Hikari Mei's fight against Mock Town's relentless mockery. Dark fantasy meets social critique.