Literary Nonfiction. Nature. Travel. In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure- filled as Beryl Markham's in West With the Night . A book about a remarkable woman and how she came to play a significant role in baboon conservation in South Africa. It is considerably enriched by Blumenthal's knowledge about baboon biology and his long-standing passion for nature, more particularly, primates. More than just an eloquent and absorbing story of a stalwart woman and her mission, it is about the fundamental ties between nature and human nature - ties that are often ignored. --Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University and former Research Director of the World Wildlife Fund Thank good there are people like Rita who are working for those species that other people don't like. --Jane Goodall Michael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1974 and is currently Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at The WVU College of Law. His collection of short stories, The Greatest Jewish- American Lover in Hungarian History , was published in 2014, and his eighth book of poems, NO HURRY: POEMS 2000-2012 in 2013 by Etruscan Press. He is the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers. His novel WEINSTOCK AMONG THE DYING (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008), won Hadassah Magazine 's Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction. His collection of essays from Central Europe, WHEN HISTORY ENTERS THE HOUSE, was published in 1998 by Pleasure Boat Studio. In his free time, he reads and thinks about primates of all sorts.