IT'S EVERY MONKEY FOR THEMSELVES Vanessa Woods - A True Story of Sex, Love and Lies in the Jungle

An Australian author studies capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica, this travel book looks like a hoot.

This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with minor reading wear; price marked with texta on bottom edge of book.

Publisher's blurb: iming to put as much distance as she could between herself and a dysfunctional relationship, Vanessa Woods left her Pleasantville life in the leafy but safe suburbs of Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She had a research job, a contract with Disney Channel and would spend the year working with a small community of dedicated like-minded scientific souls researching the behaviour of capuchin monkeys while making a documentary about Costa Rican wildlife. Or so she thought. As it turned out, Vanessa's housemates in the monkey house didn't appreciate her Australian sense of humour, she was stung so often by wasps and killer bees she developed a lethal allergy, and the monkeys were evasive, mean and aggressive - with the only difference between them and her housemates being that at least she could tell her housemates apart. Over the course of a wild, bruising and tumultuous year that can most accurately be characterized as Dian Fossey meets Big Brother, Vanessa learned that not all monkeys - or people - are alike, that friendship can be more important than sex, and that sometimes it takes a brush with death and an abscess the size of a melon on your head to make you realise that being pretty isn't always enough. This is a story of love, loss, bitter rivalry and vicious battles - and that's just the monkeys.

Book Details

Code: SKU898

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 322

Published: 2007 by Allen & Unwin

ISBN: 1741148596

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $8.00