Wild life : dispatches from a childhood of baboons and button-downs / Keena Roberts.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781538745151 (hardcover)
- 1538745151 (hardcover)
- 974.8/11092 B 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Athens | Biography | B Rob (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 40000000031535 |
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 -- 100 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.
"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."--from publisher.