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A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise

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 | #2452021 in Books |  2005-11-03 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.50 x1.00 x8.60l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| For A Friend|By Customer|I bought this book on a whim for a loved one who is also a turtle biologist and was en route to the Seychelles. It turned out to be a huge success and was read three times before she left for her trip. So anyone interested in history, nature, world politics, this is a must read book.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.|From Booklist|They seem the stuff of myths or legends--giant tortoises large enough to carry a human on their backs. In 1535 the first description of an actual giant tortoise reached the king of Spain when a Spani

For millennia the mighty giant tortoises lived in isolation on remote oceanic islands such as the Galapagos, Seychelles and Mauritius. Then in the sixteenth century sailors discovered that they were good to eat, and their strategic location led to a wholesale plunder of their population by passing ships.
Later, many Victorian scientists became fascinated with these creatures, directly inspiring the first understanding of ecology and biogeography and Darwin's theory...

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