High Moon Over the Amazon
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High Moon Over the Amazon by Patricia Chapple Wright
Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate - Aotus, the owl monkey, or monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behavior of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself. It all starts in a New York City pet shop when Wright and her husband buy an owl monkey whose lively and rambunctious ways soon lead the young couple to SouthAmerica to acquire him a mate. But while Wright's monkey family is growing, her own begins to fall apart when her husband leaves her and her daughter. Undeterred by her lack of academic experience, Wright sets out as a single mother to study primate behavior in the wild, including a year at a research station in the remote jungles of Peru. There she encounters jaguars, poisonous snakes, army ants, and massive floods that threaten her and her daughter's lives, as well as moments of great clarityand beauty. From New York City in the 1960s to the depths of the Amazon in the 1970s and 80s, this story of one woman's transformation from Brooklyn housewife to an accomplished scientist will captivate fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. High Moon Over the Amazon is a thrilling memoir of adventure, inspiration, and of falling in love with a species not so unlike our own.
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Patricia Chapple Wright is an anthropologist, primatologist, and environmentalist. She is well recognized for her extensive research of the social and family interactions of Madagascar's wild lemurs. At Stony Brook University, she founded the Centre for the Conservation of Tropical Ecosystems. She did a lot of conservation work and was instrumental in the creation of Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590564806 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590564804 |
| Title | High Moon Over the Amazon |
| Author | Patricia Wright |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lantern Books,US |
| Year published | 2014-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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