Turtle Island: A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony
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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.
Author: Sergio Ghione
Format: Hardback, 176 pages, 142mm x 224mm, 333 g
Published: 2002, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Popular Science
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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.
Turtle Island: A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony