Voyage of the turtle Author:Carl Safina "Safina's gift for clear, energetic prose make marine science both accessible and alluring...His precisely observed writing often rises to eloquence"----San Fran Chronicle — As this natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the Leatherback Turtle is in our hands. The only surviving species of its genus, family and suborder, the Leatherb... more »ack is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale....
We accompany award-winning natural history expert Safina as he tracks Leather backs across the the world, a thrilling journey from Montererey California to nessting grounds in Papua New Guinea. Gorgeous and stimulating.« less