Since budget limitations precluded maps in the book, I would suggest having an atlas nearby, especially for the locations on Madagascar (and if you don't know where THAT is, you REALLY need the atlas! Mireya Mayor holds nothing back—from growing up in a family displaced by political oppression, to finding fame on the sidelines of professional football fields, to her triumphs and challenges in some of the most remote places on earth. This reminds me of a story that Sandi Toksvig once told: Years ago, when I was studying anthropology at university, one of my female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it. In a series of short chapters, she relives each exhilarating event with uncanny charm and self-deprecating humour. Mireya tells her story one of a fearless, driven and outrageously accomplished woman with a lifestyle to rival any action movie with genuine passion and not an ounce of self-indulgence.

Readers have the rare opportunity to follow the renowned primatologist around the globe as she unlocks the mysteries of the natural world and endeavours to save some of the planet's rarest creatures. i also didn't love the author's tendency to interject constant reminders that she was a cheerleader and a girly girl where they really didn't fit - it just didn't feel natural to read about her near-death mountain climbing experience followed by her observation that she totally needed a manicure, and it took me out of the narrative. You can currently catch her series “Wild Nights with Mireya Mayor” and her documentary special “Mystery Gorillas”. She mentions the fact that she was an NFL Cheerleader about 85 times, and none of her wildlife experiences are very detailed.

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And if you do happen to spend more time at the fax machine than makes you happy, then there is always the bus ride home to look forward to. We may not discover a new species of lemur but through our own curiosity we can see our daily lives from other more appealing, adventurous perspectives. So in addition to the travelogue and the scientific thrills, she records the human side of her life, which helps you to see the real person she is. Mayor, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, television correspondent, respected primatologist, and former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, offers a highly readable first-person account of her worldwide travels.Tampons make excellent fire starters while trekking thru the rainforest where everything, from your gear to the surrounding timber is damp. Mireya Mayor: Nat Geo WILD channel host, National Geographic Explorer, and primatological goddess who is redefining what it means to “have it all” for a new generation of women. Mireya Mayor is a 2007 Emerging Explorer, former correspondent for Ultimate Explorer, and host of the upcoming series Wild Nights on NAT GEO WILD!

Particularily of interest was the way gorilla's live a "soap opera" life with teenage gorillas angering their dads and the females often leaving the males. Mireya Mayor is a former NFL cheerleader turned NatGeo explorer - don't worry, if you didn't get it the first time, she repeats it many, many times throughout the course of this memoir. For someone who had never gone camping as a child, Mireya experienced what would be a scientist's greatest joy when she co-discovered the mouse lemur, a new species of lemur, which weighing in at just 2 oz. Love Island All Stars viewers praise Sophie Piper for 'snitching' on scheming Georgia Steel during secret flirty chat with Tom Clare: 'He's gonna tell the villa!

Interesting and kudos for all the hard work she's done, but the book would have been much better if it weren't the same ideas tossed over at over again: Cubans are fiesty, I'm a woman who made it in a man's field and I was a cheerleader. You will actually find yourself laughing out loud when she recounts the menagerie she collected as a child.

I really admire this lady explorer who can still maintain her girly-girlishness in the jungle with a simple box of hair dye.I am referring here to the stereotypical male perspective, as I believe gender to be more of a spectrum. She travels to South America and the Congo both and braves worms in her feet, scorpion bites, killer bee stings, cock roaches in her pants, possible gorilla attacks, blood infections, and all for the love of monkeys.