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Turtle Island: Eine Reise zur seltsamsten Kolonie Großbritanniens von Ghione, Sergio-
by Ghione, Sergio | HC | VeryGood
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312310951
ISBN-13
9780312310950
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2482633
Product Key Features
Original Language
Italian
Book Title
Turtle Island : a Journey to the World's Most Remote Island
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2003
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-058453
Reviews
International Praise for Turtle Island : "In a laconic and conversational style, [Ghione] seamlessly weaves the historical with the geographical, and his descriptions are often pleasingly tangential, melding descriptions of the island's past and present inhabitants with observations on its ecological make-up (the green sand, the world's worst golf course)." - The Times Higher Education Supplement "A wondrous book...The original purpose of the trip moves to the background as [Ghione] writes about the island and its solitude, about people and life. And then all of a sudden it is there again. Precise, scientific. Two parallel threads which are only apparently apart. A very remarkable new publication." - NRZ am Sonntag (Frankfurt, Germany) "[A] beautiful book." - Sole 24 Ore (Milan, Italy) "In [Ghione's] fascinating book he mixes objective, scientific accounts with digressions into geography and history." - Der Standard (Vienna, Austria) "A fascinating voyage through history and geography...[Ghione] gives beautiful and vivid accounts on the volcanic nature of the island, of its colonial history, and of its present role as a telecommunication center for satellites." - Frankfurter Neue Presse (Frankfurt, Germany)
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
919.7/3
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Ascension Island is a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs, and stray donkeys in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It erupted into existence about 600 years ago and was discovered by the Portugese in 1501. However, it was only when Napoleon was exiled to nearby St. Helena that the island gained strategic importance and was snatched up by the British. It went on to become a crucial "node" in both world wars and the Cold War. The 1960s saw the building of a NASA base which was crucial to the Apollo missions. The thousand or so people who live on this island now do so because they have been brought here by their work for NASA as fishermen, or simply to service the existence of the colony. Ghione's work was to travel there to study Ascension's most famous inhabitants: the extraordinary sea turtles that arrive each year to lay their eggs. Combining history, science, geography, and journalism, this quirky and charming book is a wonderful tale about a very peculiar place - a tiny piece of Britishness absurdly at odds with the reality of its bleakness and isolation. Ghoine has a sharp eye for the curiosities of island life, such as the single grocery shop that sells Christmas goods year round, the ritual of throwing paint at a particular curbstone, and many more. Come and experience the strange world of Ascension Island first-hand!, Part-travelogue and part-journalism, this is a fascinating exploration of Ascension Island, the most remote inhabited island in the world
LC Classification Number
F3030.3.G4713 2003
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