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Ascension Island is the most remote inhabited spot on earth; an inhuman wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs and feral donkeys. The thousand or so people who live on this Atlantic speck do so because they need to work: in the RAF, for NASA, as fishermen, or simply to service the existence of the colony. Sergio Ghione's work was to travel there to study Ascension's most famous inhabitants: the extraordinary sea-turtles that arrive there each year to lay their eggs. TURTLE ISLAND is a wonderful account of one man's adventures in this very peculiar place: a tiny piece of Britishness subverted by the absurd awfulness of its aridity and isolation.
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Ascension Island is one of the most remote inhabited spots ono earth; a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs and feral donkeys. The thousand or so people who live on this Atlantic speck, do so for reasons of work: for the RAF or NASA, to fish, or simply to service the existence of the colony. This title is an account of one man's adventures in this peculiar place - a tiny piece of Britishness subverted by its aridity and isolation. His work was to study the island's most famous inhabitants - the sea turtles that swim thousands of miles from South America to lay their eggs there each year.
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SERGIO GHIONE is a doctor and research scientist at Italy's National Research Foundation at Pisa.
MARTIN McLAUGHLIN is Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford. His translation of Calvino's WHY READ THE CLASSICS? won the John Florio Prize.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0713995475
- ISBN 13 9780713995473
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