On the Backs of Tortoises

An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world.   Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary Awards   The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and islan