Turtle Island by Sergio Ghione
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713995473 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713995475 |
| Title | Turtle Island |
| Author | Sergio Ghione |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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