A Sheltered Life

A Sheltered Life
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 0195223969
ISBN-13 : 9780195223965
Rating : 4/5 (965 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Sheltered Life by : Paul Chambers

Download or read book A Sheltered Life written by Paul Chambers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sheltered Life offers a fascinating look at one of the world's strangest and most wondrous animals--whose significance in modern science and culture cannot be underestimated. In an engaging blend of cultural and natural history, the book ranges from the earliest mention of the tortoises many millennia ago, to the wholesale plunder of their populations starting in the sixteenth century, to modern attempts to protect the tortoise and track down members of what were once believed to be extinct populations.


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