Voyage of the turtle - Velha Estante

383 pages

English language

Published Dec. 18, 2006 by Holt.

ISBN:: 978-0-8050-7891-6
OCLC Number:: 62421285

(1 review)

The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future. The decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from human interventions, and teach us lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans. The only surviving species of its suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. As naturalist Safina makes clear, the fate of the leatherback is in our hands. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of …

The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future. The decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from human interventions, and teach us lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans. The only surviving species of its suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. As naturalist Safina makes clear, the fate of the leatherback is in our hands. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua New Guinea.--From publisher description.

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The Voyage of the Turtle is more than just a book about turtles. This book is also a voyage throughout the many seas the leatherback sea turtles inhabit. by journeying with the turtles, we get to know the people that try to protect them, their nesting sites, the many problems surrounding their conservation, how fisheries hurt the turtles and the seas with their practices. But, most of all, the Voyage is about getting to know one of nature’s oldest and mysterious creatures, creating an empathy bond with its life and destiny.

As with Beyond Words, by the same author, we are taken to the animal world and get to see it through different eyes, eyes not accustomed (or forgetful) to seeing life as life in nature is.

If you want to broaden your empathy circle to encompass more of nature, if you want to, at least for a bit, to …

The Voyage of the Turtle is more than just a book about turtles. This book is also a voyage throughout the many seas the leatherback sea turtles inhabit. by journeying with the turtles, we get to know the people that try to protect them, their nesting sites, the many problems surrounding their conservation, how fisheries hurt the turtles and the seas with their practices. But, most of all, the Voyage is about getting to know one of nature’s oldest and mysterious creatures, creating an empathy bond with its life and destiny.

As with Beyond Words, by the same author, we are taken to the animal world and get to see it through different eyes, eyes not accustomed (or forgetful) to seeing life as life in nature is.

If you want to broaden your empathy circle to encompass more of nature, if you want to, at least for a bit, to break with a human-centered view of the world, this book won’t disappoint you.

Subjects

Leatherback turtle