I love the way the author takes you on this journey, I've only read the first installment, but I find this very informative to new facts about remote exotic places, just the kind I like! Can't wait for the next installment. I've jotted down the names of some islands mentioned here, i.e. Cook Islands, Hebrides, Marquesa Islands, Tristan da Curcha, Pitcairn Island, and Kamchatka, gotta do some research on these......I need to know where they are as well as Ascention Island. Wonder if there are any lighthouses there?
Sergio and his friends sound like interesting people to know. It is easy to get caught up with their expedition. I have never heard about the secretive Ascension Island, so it will be interesting to read about it. It would be great to travel there and see the lighthouse.
I have a love for islands myself. It may come from growing up in the landlocked Midwest. I am intrigued by this story and look forward to the next installment.
I was enjoying today's installment until he started in with the history lesson and was going on and on about Herodotus. I find those sort of tangents detract from a story like this rather than improve it. I hope he does not make a habit of it.
One Day There Will Be No Violence On The Whole Earth:
February 5 2004, 12:21 PM
Can you imagine? Not having to lock doors or hide money, Ascension Island sounds wonderful. The Bible speaks of a time when "they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble." -Micah 4:4
This was the author's dream to come to Ascension Island and it looks already as if he is experiencing everything that he had hoped for.
I have loved each installment of this book, which I frankly did NOT expect to care about. I have told several friends about it.
The author's explanation of the Herodotus account of earlier Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa took me by surprise. In faithfully recounting a story from 200 years earlier, one that made no sense in Herodotus' day, he provided evidence for those who consider the tale today. This, with 1421, is giving me a fuller view of the ancients' actual exploration of their physical world.
And I haven't gotten to the core of the scientists' research. Wonderful offering; thanks!!
I have really enjoyed "Turtle Island". It has been one of my favorite NonFiction book segments here at this book club. I am definitely going to buy this book if I can.
I am fascinated by the idea os Ascencion Island but I'm not totally sold on the author's writing style. If the library owns this book (and they don't own all of the ones that we read in this club) then I will check it out and read it. If they don't, I won't buy it to read it.
I do wonder what happened to the German and his family..if they made it to the Carribean and if anyone would ever miss them if they didn't...
These few chapters have been both informative and fascintating. To think that there is a coastal island somewhere in the Alantic untouched by man. I, like some of the other readers, was taken by the lack of locks and hostility . It is no wonder that the great sea turtle chooses this place to migrate, and now that we have been given a brief history of the islands I hope more of the book will concentrate on the phenomenon of this migration. I want to read more of this one
These few chapters have been both informative and fascintating. To think that there is a coastal island somewhere in the Alantic untouched by man. I, like some of the other readers, was taken by the lack of locks and hostility . It is no wonder that the great sea turtle chooses this place to migrate, and now that we have been given a brief history of the islands I hope more of the book will concentrate on the phenomenon of this migration. I want to read more of this one
