D&M Publishers
Canadian distributors for:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Boy on the Back of the Turtle

Book details:

March 1999
ISBN 978-1-55054-701-6
Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
247 pages
Travel
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
$16.95 CAD

Greystone Books

Boy on the Back of the Turtle

Seeking God, Quince Marmalade and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin’s Islands

As he cruises the Galapagos Islands in the company of his daughter, aged seven, and his father, aged seventy-three, Paul Quarrington ponders questions great and small. Equal parts memoir, travel book and good old-fashioned yarn, The Boy on the Back of the Turtle is a funny, poignant look at the mysteries of our universe.

About the Author

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