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The Galapagos Affair
The Galapagos Affair
Author: John Treherne
Ranging from grandiose accounts of an eccentric Nietzschean idyll to ludicrous tales of squabbles over a set of steel dentures, stories about Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch, settlers on the remote Galapagos Island of Floreana, quickly captivated the world's press in the early thirties. Reports took on a bizarre and dangerous flavour with the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140131901
ISBN-10: 0140131906
Pages: 223
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Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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This strange little true life story made it way to me and I really enjoyed reading it. It told the story of European immigrants to the Galapagos Islands and how their lives slowly spiraled out of control and ending up in murder. I had never heard of this tale before but it was world wide news in it's day. A very interesting book.
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