On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden by Elizabeth Hennessy

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

Elizabeth Hennessy

336 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction nature informative slow-paced

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An insightful exploration of the iconic Gal pagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world The Gal pagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conser...

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