This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following:
“The End.” Words and music by The Doors. Copyright © 1967 Doors Music Co. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Ecuador: Beachhead on the Moon.” Copyright © 1946 Time Inc. Reprinted by permission.
“Back to Nature” from Newsweek, October 6, 1934. Copyright © Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
“First-Hand Report on Galápagos Island Hunt” by Richard Meyer. Copyright © 1999 The Hunting Report. Reprinted by permission.
“Fire and Ice” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1969 Henry Holt and Company. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Co., LLC.
All photographs courtesy Michael D’Orso except the following:
Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, page xiii, by Stuart Franklin, Magnum Photos.
Norwegian settlers, 1920s, page 76, courtesy of Charles Darwin Research Station library.
Dr. Ritter and the “baroness,” page 194, courtesy of University of Southern California, on behalf of the Hancock Foundation Archive, Archival Research Center.
Wreck of the Jessica, page 278, by Heidi Snell. Sirenian crew, page 304, courtesy of Sean O’Hearn Giminez.
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ePub edition June 2007 ISBN 9780061749568
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