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Dr. Peter Pritchard, Oxford scholar, conservationist, world traveler, and Renaissance man, is a multifaceted expert on turtles and tortoises. A cheloniological thread thus runs through his Tales from the Thébaïde, as he expands the study of his favorite animals into commentaries upon the universe itself, and includes brilliant, erudite, and always humorous
accounts of his adventures in many lands seeking further insight into the shelled reptiles.
There is a long section on why he set up his personal Thébaïde *(a French dictionary defines this word to mean an intellectual retreat, a remote place, away from the bustle of life, where conversation, scholarship, and scientific and literary discourses are sacred), the Chelonian Research Institute, and his delight in the zany, sometimes unbelievable players of the past who launched their own
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