Ascension Island is one of the most remote inhabited spots ono earth; a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs and feral donkeys. The thousand or so people who live on this Atlantic speck, do so for reasons of work: for the RAF or NASA, to fish, or simply to service the existence of the colony. This title is an account of one man's adventures in this peculiar place - a tiny piece of Britishness subverted by its aridity and isolation. His work was to study the island's most famous inhabitants - the sea turtles that swim ...
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Ascension Island is one of the most remote inhabited spots ono earth; a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs and feral donkeys. The thousand or so people who live on this Atlantic speck, do so for reasons of work: for the RAF or NASA, to fish, or simply to service the existence of the colony. This title is an account of one man's adventures in this peculiar place - a tiny piece of Britishness subverted by its aridity and isolation. His work was to study the island's most famous inhabitants - the sea turtles that swim thousands of miles from South America to lay their eggs there each year.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 0713995475. 158p, bibliography, new book translated from Italian by Martin McLaughlin, . The author, an Italian research scientist travelled to Ascension Island, "the most remote inhabited spot on earth".; 8vo.
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