Michael D'Orso
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- D'Orso, Michael P.
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- 1953-10-12
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- USA
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- College of William and Mary (MA|1981)
College of William and Mary (BA|Philosophy|1975) - Berufe
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Overall, the picture is pretty bleak. The Galápagos face pressures both external and internal from humans, and D'Orso does a fair job detailing both. However, his whirlwind tour of the Islands and its people left me confused as to just who was who, and their relation to one another. A glossary of names, places, and the Spanish terms he uses throughout would have gone a long way towards relieving some of that.
The organization of the book also contributed to my confusion. There was a vague chronological order of book based on when the author met the people he was describing, but he would also go back into the Islands' history to detail events specific to those people at that point, which muddled things.… (mehr)