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Accurate and fact-filled text ... easily readable by the most casual of turtle observers. -- John P. Level, Turtle and Tortoise Bookshop Newsletter, 2002
Almost everything a turtle enthusiast could possibly want to know can be found in this comprehensive book. -- Joy Saethre, VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), August 2002
Comprehensive coverage ... their evolution, life history and conservation. -- Nature, December 2001
Mr. Orenstein's treatment is nothing short of masterly. -- John Matthew, Science Books and Films 11/2002
This book is a great secondary teaching resource for harnessing students' natural curiosity. -- Amanda Ziglinski, The Science Teacher 11/2002
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This book is a great secondary teaching resource for harnessing students' natural curiosity. (Amanda Ziglinski Science Teacher 20020801)
Almost everything a turtle enthusiast could possibly want to know can be found in this comprehensive book. (Joy Saethre VOYA [Voice of Youth Advocates] 20020401)
Comprehensive coverage ... their evolution, life history and conservation. (Nature 20020101)
The book abounds with excellent color photographs. Recommended. (Lynn C. Badger Library Journal 200211)
Accurate and fact-filled text. (John P. Level Turtle and Tortoise Bookshop Newsletter )
Deft prose and engaging anecdotes, Mr. Orenstein takes us skillfully through a vast amount of information... nothing short of masterly. (John Matthew Science Books and Films )
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Accurate and fact-filled text ... easily readable by the most casual of turtle observers. -- John P. Level, Turtle and Tortoise Bookshop Newsletter, 2002
Almost everything a turtle enthusiast could possibly want to know can be found in this comprehensive book. -- Joy Saethre, VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), August 2002
Comprehensive coverage ... their evolution, life history and conservation. -- Nature, December 2001
Mr. Orenstein's treatment is nothing short of masterly. -- John Matthew, Science Books and Films 11/2002
This book is a great secondary teaching resource for harnessing students' natural curiosity. -- Amanda Ziglinski, The Science Teacher 11/2002
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This book is a great secondary teaching resource for harnessing students' natural curiosity. (Amanda Ziglinski Science Teacher 20020801)
Almost everything a turtle enthusiast could possibly want to know can be found in this comprehensive book. (Joy Saethre VOYA [Voice of Youth Advocates] 20020401)
Comprehensive coverage ... their evolution, life history and conservation. (Nature 20020101)
The book abounds with excellent color photographs. Recommended. (Lynn C. Badger Library Journal 200211)
Accurate and fact-filled text. (John P. Level Turtle and Tortoise Bookshop Newsletter )
Deft prose and engaging anecdotes, Mr. Orenstein takes us skillfully through a vast amount of information... nothing short of masterly. (John Matthew Science Books and Films )
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I ONCE ASKED a professor of mine, a noted authority on the anatomy and biology of turtles, why he had devoted his life to their study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
helmeted terrapin, chaco tortoise, painted terrapins, impressed tortoise, internesting interval, ancestral turtle, giant musk turtles, sea turtle biologists, pivotal temperature, striped mud turtles, common map turtles, modern sea turtles, river terrapin, most sea turtles, spurred tortoise, common musk turtles, pancake tortoise, common snapping turtles, alligator snapper, other sea turtles, radiated tortoise, temporal fenestrae, emydid turtles, spider tortoise, river turtles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, North America, United States, New Guinea, South Africa, Central American, Costa Rica, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, Archie Carr, Critically Endangered, Lonesome George, Victoria River, Gulf of Mexico, Colin Limpus, George Balazs, New World, Peter Pritchard, Hong Kong, Jardine River, Lord Howe Island, North Africa, Old World, Project Angonoka, Sipadan Island New!
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I ONCE ASKED a professor of mine, a noted authority on the anatomy and biology of turtles, why he had devoted his life to their study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
helmeted terrapin, chaco tortoise, painted terrapins, impressed tortoise, internesting interval, ancestral turtle, giant musk turtles, sea turtle biologists, pivotal temperature, striped mud turtles, common map turtles, modern sea turtles, river terrapin, most sea turtles, spurred tortoise, common musk turtles, pancake tortoise, common snapping turtles, alligator snapper, other sea turtles, radiated tortoise, temporal fenestrae, emydid turtles, spider tortoise, river turtles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, North America, United States, New Guinea, South Africa, Central American, Costa Rica, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, Archie Carr, Critically Endangered, Lonesome George, Victoria River, Gulf of Mexico, Colin Limpus, George Balazs, New World, Peter Pritchard, Hong Kong, Jardine River, Lord Howe Island, North Africa, Old World, Project Angonoka, Sipadan Island New!
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- Encyclopedia of Turtles by Peter C. H. Pritchard on page 96, page 180, and Back Matter
- Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Southern Mozambique (Traveller's Wildlife Guides) by Bill Branch on page 60, page 98, and Back Matter
- Turtles of Venezuela (Contributions to herpetology) by Peter Charles Howard Pritchard on page 57, page 143, and Back Matter
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Walter Henry Bates on page 155, and page 245
- The Loggerhead Turtle in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico by Charles R. Lebuff on page 235, and Back Matter
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