{"id":1011,"date":"2018-08-25T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/?page_id=1011"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:23:53","slug":"dreaming-in-turtle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peterlaufer.com\/?page_id=1011","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming in Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kirkus Reviews<\/a> calls Dreaming in Turtle “a clear call to action” and “a highly readable book.”<\/p>\n

Dreaming in Turtle <\/em>is a masterpiece of nature writing.\u00a0 It provides the reader with an in- depth look at the horrors of the illicit global trade in turtles, and is also a beautifully written cultural history of turtles from Costa Rica to China.\u00a0 As these shelled wonders grow rarer, they need voices like Laufer\u2019s to call attention to their plight.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Craig Stanford, professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology University of Southern California, and author of The Last Tortoise<\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone has a turtle story, argues investigative journalist Peter Laufer in this head- spinning book on these peaceful yet exploited creatures. From the swamps of Louisiana to squalid Asian live animal markets, Laufer introduces readers to a fascinating cast of saints and sinners including turtle poachers and pet smugglers, biologists and wildlife rehabbers. Alternately poignant and funny, Dreaming in Turtle <\/em>deftly explores the complexities underlying our relationships with other species generally, whether they are objects of our affection, items on the menu, or illicit sources of guitar picks and leather boots.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It\u2019s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Laufer takes us into the world of turtles, and allows those slow, steady, clumsy, primitive throwbacks-to-the-dinosaurs to capture our imagination, sympathy and love. Land and sea, as varied as you and me, they are thought to have spiritual powers and to bring positive energy and good health. And who wouldn’t want to be able to disappear into one’s shell occasionally?As Laufer explains, we all have a turtle story.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Rich Minner, former producer, NBC \u201cToday Show\u201d<\/p>\n

Dreaming in Turtle <\/em>is a love song to the turtles and tortoises that have populated our legends and parables since the beginning of time. It is easy and far too fashionable to wax poetic about the charismatic beasties \u2013 “the lions and tigers and bears, oh my,” in the midst of this sixth great extinction. With this book, Peter Laufer does something harder, and far more important. His quest to explore our relationship with these very special reptiles transcends investigative journalism to become an ode to what we should aspire to in our relationship with all of nature. Prepare to fall in love, and to start dreaming in turtle.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Mark Bauman, former senior vice president Media, Smithsonian Institution<\/p>\n

Looking into a turtle\u2019s face is looking into Deep Time.\u00a0 As Peter Laufer explains\u00a0in\u00a0Dreaming in Turtle<\/em>, it is also looking at the near future, at the threat of extinction ofthese marvelous creatures that go back to the Age of Reptiles.\u00a0 Read this book and understand why we humans must prevent this irreversible break with a lineage so much deeper than our own species’ comparatively brief time on this planet.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Rick Ridgeway, vice president Environmental Affairs, Patagonia<\/p>\n

Dreaming in Turtle\u00a0<\/em>is a\u00a0globalized paean to the turtle in all its forms \u2013 well researched,\u00a0compellingly\u00a0written,\u00a0and\u00a0deeply moving. As a Foreign Service Officer I was involved in a number of conservation\u00a0efforts in\u00a0Africa, and Laufer captures in this book, better than anything else I’ve read, the\u00a0genetic necessity to try and understand life’s complexities at all levels, and how all of our\u00a0living colleagues on Earth \u2013 especially the mystical turtle \u2013 are symbiotically vital to our joint futures. This fine book does us proud.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Eric Benjaminson,\u00a0former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and to Sao Tome & Principe<\/p>\n

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