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One Life: Richard E. Leakey: An Autobiography
Richard Leakey's first official job as the administrative director of Kenya's National Museum began the very week that he contracted a serious kidney disease--one which would affect his life from that moment onwards. In January 1969, he was told by doctors in London that his own kidneys would last no longer than ten years. As it turned out, the doctors were correct; but in
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The Leakey family has long been an important part of Kenyan society. Richard is as stubborn and willful as the rest of his clan, which makes this memoir (not really complete enough to be an autobiography) of his young days and beginnings in politics a history of Kenya's often troubled and yet always entertaining past as well. Leakey is arrogant, pretentious, and undeniably intelligent and mainly forthright. His love for Kenya makes him bearable and the book is witty, full of Kenyan lore and name
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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey.
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