Primates: The Amazing World of Lemurs, Monkeys, and Apes

by Art Wolfe

Book Overview

Internationally renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe has created a rare and moving portrait of Earth's vanishing primates. An incredible visual journey, Primates offers an exciting glimpse of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811814343
• ISBN13: 9780811814348
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful primate photos!

This is a great photo book about our fellow primates. It includes many primate species you don't usually see in books. It has at least one photo of all different types of primates, from bushbabies and lemurs to mandrills and gorillas, and everything in between. It also has Asian, African, and South American species, which is a nice variety. The photos here are of very high quality, and quite beautiful. They are all original for this book, not photos grabbed from other places. Each species also gets a nice little write up. It looks small on the image here but it's actually almost 200 pages long and about an inch thick. The paper is high quality glossy and the printing is well done. The cover is nice, but the binding is of low quality, unfortunately.

Gorgeous photos and good, solid info on primates

Primarily a photography book, PRIMATES offers an intimate and often humorous (but not condescendingly so) look into wild primate life. Even the brief text, by Barbara Sleeper, is first-rate, revealing details about each species not often encountered by lay people. This is not meant to be a comprehensive text, however, but a celebration of some of our closest relatives. The photography is at times stunning, capturing intelligence, emotion, innovation, and above all personality. If you love primates, or are even vaguely attracted to their study, this is a must-have book.

This is by far the best primate book I have seen yet!

Filled with excellent photographs by Art Wolfe, this book shows more than 100 species of monkeys, apes, and lemurs. Seperated by geographical location and family, each specie represented has a short and comprehensible synopsis accompanying one or more beautiful photos. A great introductory book to the world of primates, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the field. Thomas R. Null, A Walk on the Wild Side: International Nature and Wildlife

A great introduction to the wonderful world of primates!

This book is suitable for all ages. I just loved Art Wolfe's photographs. With so much emphasis on "trendy" primate species like gorillas and chimpanzees, this book introduces readers to the dozens of primate species of which you may never have heard. Like the gibbons, the lesser and often forgotten apes - whose domestic lives are lived by the standards humans so often fail to meet (sexual equality, no color bars, paternal role in infant rearing, monogamy)! Plus tiny marmosets you can old in the palm of your hand. All these animals are there. I loved this book. It is not a comprehensive guide or identification manual like Noel Rowe's book which I also like. It is a pleasant and readable book! Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman, International Primate Protection League