Libro Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of the World's Most Famous Tortoise De Henry Nicholls

portada Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of the World's Most Famous Tortoise

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Pan Macmillan

Autor

Henry Nicholls

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

231

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.38

ISBN

0330450115

ISBN13

9780330450119

N° edición

2007

Categorías

Reptiles y anfibios

Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of the World's Most Famous Tortoise

Henry Nicholls (Autor) · Pan Macmillan · Tapa Blanda

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Lonesome George is a 5 foot long, 200 pound tortoise, between 60 and 200 years old. In 1971 he was discovered on the remote Galapagos island of Pinta, from which tortoises had supposedly been extinct for years. He has been at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz island ever since, on the off-chance that scientific ingenuity will conjure up a way of reproducing him and resurrecting his species. Meanwhile, countless tourists and dozens of baffled scientists have looked on as the celebrity reptile shows not a jot of interest in the female company provided. Today, Lonesome George has come to embody the mystery, complexity and fragility of the unique Galapagos archipelago. His story echoes the challenges of conservation worldwide; it is a story of Darwin, sexual dysfunction, adventure on the high seas, cloning, DNA fingerprinting and eco-tourism.