Voyage of the turtle
Subtitle: in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur
By: Carl Safina
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Holt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780805078916
Subjects: Leatherback turtle
Description: 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.
Notes: "A John Macrae book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-367) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Atlantic; title: Angels of Eden - Trinidad; title: Weight of the world; title: Moonlight in the sunshine state - Florida; title: Leatherbacks and cannonballs - South Carolina; title: On the edge - Georges Bank; title: Animal magnetism; title: Northeast of summer - Cape Breton Island; title: pt. II Between oceans; title: The view from Turtle Island; title: pt. III Pacific; title: The great beach - Costa Rica; title: Flying turtles - Mexico; title: Baja; title: The other Grand Canyon - Monterey Bay; title: Jamursba Belimbings - New Guinea 317; title: Chant for the enchanted; title: Appendix A few places to see nesting sea turtles.