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A Sheltered Life The Unexpected History Of The Giant
A Sheltered Life The Unexpected History Of The Giant
Review: A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the ... A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise Paul Chambers 305pp, John Murray, 17.99. Despite the title, giant tortoises have had anything but a sheltered life, at least since ... A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise For millennia the mighty giant tortoises lived in isolation on remote oceanic islands such as the Galapagos, Seychelles and Mauritius. Then in the sixteenth century sailors discovered that they were good to eat, and their strategic location led to a wholesale plunder of their population by passing ships. A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant ... They seem the stuff of myths or legends--giant tortoises large enough to carry a human on their backs. In 1535 the first description of an actual giant tortoise reached the king of Spain when a Spanish vessel off the coast of South America noted the presence of giant tortoises on a group of "worthless" islands.
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