Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle & the Fate of the Ocean

PublicAffairs Press

258 pages, index, bibliography, 35 photographs, with a new preface.

Fire in the Turtle House ought to change our view of the word” – Jean-Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society

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Now also on Amazon Kindle

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.Ruminator Review

Riveting. . . . .Impossible to put down. . . . A lucid and compelling synthesis of historical events, empirical data, and personal testimony that reminds us of the indelible impact our mere existence has on this precious planet.

OnEarth (NRDC)

Gives readers a startling perspective on the fate of the planet by taking them through time and tides on the back of a sea turtle, whose every species is today endangered or threatened.

The Honolulu Advertiser

Davidson’s writing is …the best kind of journalistic reporting: clear and well-paced. He writes for people who don’t have biology degrees in a way that scientists will likely respect.

Carl Safina, author of “Song for the Blue Ocean”

Turtles have graced the seas for hundreds of millions of years. What their future holds, no one can say. Fire in the Turtle House is an important book about this wounded world and the people who are trying to set it right.

Publishers Weekly

An eloquent ecocautionary tale wrapped in a scientific mystery…. A quick-flowing narrative sparkling with wit. Readers interested in ecology and animals, as well as those who value strong prose, will be intrigued and troubled by this book.

Sea Turtle Video

Some of the honu (green sea turtles) in this video are the “stars” of Fire in the Turtle House. Filmed by Ursula and Peter Keuper-Bennett in Hawaii.