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In The Boy on the Back of the Turtle, Quarrington attempts to discover his own little niche in the cosmos. Cruising the volcanic Galapagos Islands on a 90-foot liner called the Corinthian in the company of his daughter, age 7, and his father, age 73, he tries to find his place as a Son, as a Father, as a Mortal frolicking beneath the heavens. One of the funniest and most talented writers on the planet, Quarrington employs his trademark combination of wry wit and poignant observation as he takes readers on a wide-ranging investigation of everything from blue-footed boobies, careerism, taxonomy and the nature of creation to pirates, frigate birds, Herman Melville and the precarious ecology of the islands and the planet. And as the Corinthian travels in the belly of night from one island to another, Quarrington wrestles with questions great and small. Given that the Galapagos is the historic site of God's greatest setback, he points out, it is a fitting place to play out the battle within himself. A more engaging--and entertaining--battle has seldom been waged.… (altro)
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One day a ship's captain spied a sea turtle swimming in the seas that surround the Galapagos Islands. Or the Encantadas, as the sailors called the archipelago, bothered as they were by the inexplicable calmnesses. So this captain--his won ship stonestill and stayed--tied a rope to his boy and send him overboard to get the animal for the crew's table. As soon as the lad climbed onto the barnacled back, the wind picked up and the ship was pulled away. The last the captain saw, the boy was still clinging to the sea turtle and waving, not frantically, but farewell. -- A tale told by the merry boys
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To Dorothy, for making Carson, and Mary, for making me
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On March twenty-fifth of the year nineteen hundred and ninety-six, with my spirit made dull and muzzy by so long spent ashore, I embarked upon a voyage of the Encantadas, the storied, shrouded archipelago that lies some six hundred miles to the west of the southern Americas.
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In The Boy on the Back of the Turtle, Quarrington attempts to discover his own little niche in the cosmos. Cruising the volcanic Galapagos Islands on a 90-foot liner called the Corinthian in the company of his daughter, age 7, and his father, age 73, he tries to find his place as a Son, as a Father, as a Mortal frolicking beneath the heavens. One of the funniest and most talented writers on the planet, Quarrington employs his trademark combination of wry wit and poignant observation as he takes readers on a wide-ranging investigation of everything from blue-footed boobies, careerism, taxonomy and the nature of creation to pirates, frigate birds, Herman Melville and the precarious ecology of the islands and the planet. And as the Corinthian travels in the belly of night from one island to another, Quarrington wrestles with questions great and small. Given that the Galapagos is the historic site of God's greatest setback, he points out, it is a fitting place to play out the battle within himself. A more engaging--and entertaining--battle has seldom been waged.
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