The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal, American Museum of Natural History"Writing in the best tradition of the great naturalist explorers."--Rachel Carson"Written with verve and drive and clarity and joyousness . . . a classic of travel-nature writing."--Chicago Tribune"A delightful and absorbing adventure story, which acquires those characteristics through the author’s love of nature and its creatures, both human and otherwise."--San Francisco ExaminerThe Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation. In addition to sea turtle biology, Carr recorded his general impressions, producing a natural history sprinkled with colorful stories.