Voyage of the Turtle

De: Carl Safina

Narrado por: David Drummond

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.

©2006 Carl Safina (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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)

More of death than life

Carl Safina's approach of finding our non-human kin in their natural settings remains beautiful and awe-inspiring throughout every story he writes. However, this particular novel reeks of the reductionism in our scientific culture that he now claims to despise. The fault lying with our anthropocentric ethic that persists viciously throughout all cultures, this book focuses on the plight of human pillagers and nature-rapists seemingly over the truly marginalized and endangered beings the story claims to focus on. Vivid descriptions of down-trodden, ignorant, criminal, or frustratingly stubborn humans desecrating the dwindling abundance of the natural world runs rampant throughout the book without any of satfyingly philosophical counterpoints Safina has made in more recent works. Many chapters, such as Chapter 7, are so needlessly graphic that I could not unclench my fist while listening. Many interesting facts and statistics for the non-human animals talked about are provided, and a great majority of the book is still well worth a listen. However; if you, like me, have been searching for an escape from the crushing solastalgia and intense misanthropy that may plague your mind with the state of the world today -- this story will not provide it.