Galapagos

Name: Galapagos
Brand: Eland Publishing Ltd

Eland Publishing Ltd

Galapagos\nby John Hickman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Hickman\nTitle: Galapagos\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: general\nPublisher: Eland Publishing Ltd\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9781906011109\nISBN-10: 1906011109\nRRP: \u00A312.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nEvery year a quarter of a million well-healed, well-read travellers take the holiday of a lifetime to the Galapagos. To feed the book-buyers on this annual pilgrimage, there are a lot of beautifully illustrated guides to the fauna of the islands on the shelves, but very little about the scurrilous human adventurers who also passed this way. John Hickman presents an intriguing cast of characters, from Incas to whalers, pirates to Robinson Crusoes, the original Swiss Family Robinson a.