Turtle Island

A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony

Sergio Ghione (Autor)

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
Zustand	Neuware