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306 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195223965
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 01 December 2005
Description
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...
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306 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195223965
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 01 December 2005
Description
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...