Turtle Island - Sergio Ghione

Turtle Island

A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony

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Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2002
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9547-3 (ISBN)
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This is a biologist's account of visiting Ascension Island - its history, its natural history, and the story of the sea turtles who swim the thousands of miles from South America to reach it and breed.
Ascension Island is one of the most remote inhabited spots ono earth; a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs and feral donkeys. The thousand or so people who live on this Atlantic speck, do so for reasons of work: for the RAF or NASA, to fish, or simply to service the existence of the colony. This title is an account of one man's adventures in this peculiar place - a tiny piece of Britishness subverted by its aridity and isolation. His work was to study the island's most famous inhabitants - the sea turtles that swim thousands of miles from South America to lay their eggs there each year.

SERGIO GHIONE is a doctor and research scientist at Italy's National Research Foundation at Pisa. MARTIN McLAUGHLIN is Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford. His translation of Calvino's WHY READ THE CLASSICS? won the John Florio Prize.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.4.2002
Übersetzer Martin McLaughlin
Zusatzinfo 2 maps
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 224 mm
Gewicht 333 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-7139-9547-5 / 0713995475
ISBN-13 978-0-7139-9547-3 / 9780713995473
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