The Boy on the Back of the Turtle
Subtitle: Seeking God, Quince Marmalade, and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin's Islands
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: August 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781550547016
Subjects: Essays & Travelogues; Description And Travel; Biography / Autobiography; Travel; Personal Memoirs; Travelers; Travel / Essays & Travelogues
First sentence: On March twenty-fifth of the year nineteen hundred and ninety-six, with my spirit made dull and muzzy by so long spent ashore, I embarked upon a voyage of the Encantadas, the storied, shrouded archipelago that lies some six hundred miles to the west of southern Americas.