{"product_id":"memories-from-the-jungle-paperback-softback-9781496238535","title":"Memories from the Jungle (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496238535","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMemories from the Jungle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTristan Garcia (Author), Christopher Beach (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496238535\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.274 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Embedded within this whimsical wild ride to a speculative future is a send-up of B. F. Skinner’s theory of behaviorism. In Christopher Beach’s adept translation, Tristan Garcia’s language play brings across the sympathetic and humanlike chimpanzee Doogie and his quest for a middle ground between nature and nurture.”-Elizabeth Kadetsky, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Island at the Center of the Center of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e “Writing in a style that is both precise and colorful, Tristan Garcia pursues his argument without falling into pontificating jargon, renewing in a playful mode a problem that goes back to Aristotle. It is well known: man is an ape to man, and vice versa.”-Emilie Colombani, \u003ci\u003eTechnikart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cdiv\u003e“An intelligent, original, and bold novel . . . and, ultimately, a very moving one, about the foundations of civilization, language, knowledge, and animality.”-Baptiste Liger, \u003ci\u003eL’Express\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A kind of \u003ci\u003eJungle Book\u003c\/i\u003e, but in reverse. It’s the comic version of the world of men, as seen by the animals of tomorrow. It’s daring, it’s thoughtful, it’s incisive.”-Hubert Artus, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemories from the Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only animals still survive on the African continent, along with a few scientists who study them in a kind of zoo and experimental laboratory. Doogie, a chimpanzee, has been raised as a human by a zoological researcher, Gardner Evans, and his daughter, Janet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Doogie is no ordinary chimpanzee: gifted with an exceptional intelligence (perhaps the result of a scientific experiment), he has been taught a fairly sophisticated version of the human language, is capable of human emotions such as love and jealousy, and has a highly developed understanding of human behavior. After an accident to the spacecraft that was bringing him back to Earth from an orbital station, Doogie finds himself alone in the jungle. In order to survive, he must rediscover the very animal nature he has been trained to reject.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735149113624,"sku":"9781496238535","price":15.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/memories-from-the-jungle-paperback-softback-9781496238535","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}