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Voyage of the turtle : in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur / Carl Safina.

Safina, Carl, 1955- (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0805078916
ISBN: 9780805078916
Physical Description: xvi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Holt, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A John Macrae book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-367) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	ATLANTIC: Trinidad, Florida, Leatherbacks and cannonballs in South Carolina, Georges Bank, Cape Breton Island -- Turtle Island -- PACIFIC: Costa Rica, Flying turtles of Mexico, Baja, Grand Cayman, Monterey Bay, Jamursba belimbings in New Guinea -- Where to see nesting turtles.