A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph

A WORLDWIDE TRAVEL GUIDE TO Sea Turtles MARINE, MARITIME, AND COASTAL BOOKS SPONSORED BY TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON WILLIAM MERRELL AND STEPHEN CURLEY, General Editors A WORLDWIDE TRAVEL TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS ■ College Station Sea Turtles GUIDE TO Wallace J. Nichols Brad Nahill and Melissa Gaskill Copyright © 2014 by Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, and Melissa Gaskill All rights reserved First edition Manufactured in China by Everbest Printing Co. through Four Colour Printing Group Th s paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Libr ar y of Cong re ss Ca t al oging-in-P ublic at ion D at a Nichols, Wallace J., author. A worldwide travel guide to sea turtles / Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, and Melissa Gaskill. — First edition. pages cm. — (Marine, maritime, and coastal books) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-62349-161-1 (fl x : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62349-174-1 (e-book) 1. Sea turtles—Conservation. I. Nahill, Brad, author. II. Gaskill, Melissa, author. III. Title. IV. Series: Marine, maritime, and coastal books. QL666.C536N53 2014 597.92'8—dc23 2013040986 Dedicated to Archie Carr, who started the sea turtle conservation movement; to Jairo Mora, who gave his very life to save sea turtles; and to all the hardworking, passionate people who walk beaches every night for very little pay and lots of hardship. May our children and their children’s children one day know sea turtles simply as part of the natural world and not as endangered species. If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. —Jac qu es Cou st ea u ...