"Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal--and ample reasons to care.""--Los Angeles Times" As Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the leatherback turtle is in our hands. The distressing decline of these ancient sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate the results--both positive and negative--of our interventions and the lessons that can be applied, globally, to restore the oceans and their creatures. We accompany award-winning natural history expert Safina and his colleagues as they track leatherbacks across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds in Papua, New Guinea. Throughout, in his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are playing a significant role in their survival.

卡爾·沙夫納（CarlSafina），畢生親近海洋，是漁夫，也是海洋科學傢，提倡復原海洋資源和生命力不遺餘力，曾獲普鳥慈善基金會“保護暨環境學人奬”。他曾服務於“中大西洋漁業管理委員會”，並曾擔任“史密生協會”的“海洋星球”顧問委員，以及“世界保護聯盟”的“鯊魚專傢小組”成員。1990年，沙夫納在“美國奧杜邦協會”成立“活海洋計劃”，並擔任計劃主任。目前他住在紐約，是耶魯大學副教授。卡爾·沙夫納是2000年安娜文學奬獲得者；獲1998年《紐約時報》卓越圖書奬；1998年《洛杉磯日寸報》最佳非小說類圖書奬；1998年《圖書館雜誌》最佳科學圖書奬。