The last tortoise : a tale of extinction in our lifetime /
Stanford, Craig B. 1956-
The last tortoise : a tale of extinction in our lifetime / Craig B. Stanford. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - viii, 210 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.
The tortoise and the hare? -- What exactly are tortoises and turtles? -- Live long and prosper -- No respect for the ancient lands -- Eating tortoises -- "Such huge deformed creatures" -- Beloved captives -- Are there solutions? -- Achilles and the tortoise -- Appendixes. Extremes of the tortoise world. Tortoises on the brink of extinction. Tortoise species.
9780674049925 (alk. paper)
2009053340
Testudinidae.
Turtles.
Endangered species.
Extinction (Biology)
QL666.C5 / S68 2010
333.95/79246
The last tortoise : a tale of extinction in our lifetime / Craig B. Stanford. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - viii, 210 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.
The tortoise and the hare? -- What exactly are tortoises and turtles? -- Live long and prosper -- No respect for the ancient lands -- Eating tortoises -- "Such huge deformed creatures" -- Beloved captives -- Are there solutions? -- Achilles and the tortoise -- Appendixes. Extremes of the tortoise world. Tortoises on the brink of extinction. Tortoise species.
9780674049925 (alk. paper)
2009053340
Testudinidae.
Turtles.
Endangered species.
Extinction (Biology)
QL666.C5 / S68 2010
333.95/79246