Voyage of the Turtle In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur

Name: Voyage of the Turtle In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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ISBN: 9780805083187

ISBN-10: 0805083189

ISBN-13: 9780805083187

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Authors: Carl Safina

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"Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal--and ample reasons to care.""--Los Angeles Times" As Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the leatherback turtle is in our hands. The distressing decline of these ancient sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate the results--both positive and negative--of our interventions and the lessons that can be applied, globally, to restore the oceans and their creatures. We accompany award-winning natural history expert Safina and his colleagues as they track leatherbacks across the world's…

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List price: $22.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 5/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.15" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Carl Safina is the vice president for Marine Conservation and founder of the Living Oceans Program at the National Audubon Society. He is also an adjunct professor at Yale. He lives in Islip, New York.



Gratitudes


Setting Course



Atlantic


Angels of Eden-Trinidad


Weight of the World


Moonlight in the Sunshine State-Florida


Leatherbacks and Cannonballs-South Carolina


On the Edge-Georges Bank


Animal Magnetism


Northeast of Summer-Cape Breton Island



Between Oceans


The View from Turtle Island



Pacific


The Great Beach-Costa Rica


Flying Turtles-Mexico


Baja


The Other Grand Canyon-Monterey Bay


Jamursba Belimbings-New Guinea


Chant for the Enchanted



A Few Places to See Nesting Sea Turtles


References


Index