Voyage of the Turtle In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur

'Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal-and ample reasons to care.'-Los Angeles Times As Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the leatherback turtle is in our hands. The distressing decline of these ancient sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate the results-both positive and negative-of our interventions and the lessons that can be applied, globally, to restore the oceans and their creatures. We accompany award-winning natural history expert Safina and his colleagues as they track leatherbacks across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds in Papua, New Guinea. Throughout, in his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are playing a significant role in their survival.

Carl Safina, a MacArthur fellow, Pew fellow, 2000 winner of a Lannan award for literature, and winner of the 2003 John Burroughs Award, is president of the Blue Ocean Institute. The New York Times Book Review called his Song for the Blue Ocean (0-8050-6122-3) “a landmark book.” It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Selection, and a Library Journal Best Science Book Selection.