num_pages: 239
description: These fifteen essays, by perhaps our finest personal essayist, range over the widest possible territory - county fairs, rodeos, the circus, boxing, taxidermy, bear hunting, about being a writer, about tugboats, and about the courage of the animal kingdom. They explore compassion, pain, love, and the densely textured spectacle of a world endlessly compelling to its author. And they are brilliant. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 256 pages)
language: English
title: The Courage of Turtles
titlecomplete: The Courage of Turtles
genres: Nature, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 45
publisher: North Point Press