Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur - Rilegato

Safina, Carl

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ISBN 10: 0805078916 ISBN 13: 9780805078916

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 2006

Riassunto

An award-winning naturalist offers a compelling study of the leatherback turtle and the impact of human influence on their survival, detailing the distressing decline of sea turtles in the Pacific, as well as their remarkable recovery in the Atlantic to illuminate how human intervention can both harm and preserve the natural world. 35,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Carl Safina, author of The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival, Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas, and founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, was named by the Audubon Society one of the leading conservationists of the twentieth century. He's been profiled by The New York Times, and PBS's Bill Moyers. His books and articles have won him a Pew Fellowship, Guggenheim Award, Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. He lives in Amagansett, New York.

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Book by Safina Carl

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0805078916
• ISBN 13: 9780805078916
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 383