Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805078916 (0805078916)
Publish date: May 30th 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Interesting, educational and mostly well written book about sea turtles and the trials they face from egg to death. The author researches the effects of man on sea turtle populations around the globe, and how detrimental effects can be halted, minimised and/or reversed. I would have liked to have ...
I read a lot of natural history. I enjoy it a great deal, and I find it gives me perspective on my own place in the world. I rarely close a natural history book in tears. This one had me weeping numerous times both in despair and in hope. There were times, reading Safina's lucid prose, when I though...