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...hiking and rafting expeditions. In spring and winter, the company and several others organize helicopter skiing and snowboarding down steep volcanoes, as well as visits to indigenous reindeer herders by dogsled or snowmobile. Other companies specialize in bear hunting and trout fishing. Meanwhile, cruise ships ply the shores, scouting sea-lion colonies and groups of rare Steller's sea eagles with their 7-ft. wingspans...
...argue with his view of the Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off the South American coast, seems idyllic: the giant tortoises known as galapagos, which gave the islands their name, still amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour around blue-footed boobies (a type of seabird) busily performing courtship rituals. Puerto Ayora, the islands' largest town (pop. 8,000), comprises a tranquil collection...
...down and burned protected mangroves (home of the rare mangrove finch) to dry their sea cucumbers and had slaughtered dozens of giant tortoises for food. Reacting to the overfishing, the government shut down the season a month early, triggering the protests last winter. But illegal harvests are continuing--and now seahorses and pipefish, valued in Asia for their purported aphrodisiac and medicinal value, are being taken too. A small Asian "test market" has also developed for Galapagos sea urchins as well as sea-lion genitalia and teeth...
Blistered Guests. An invitation to a potlatch was nothing to take lightly. Both hosts and guests came dressed in their most splendid clothes, the chiefs wearing elaborately carved wooden hats adorned with ermine skins and sea-lion bristles, and carrying their ceremonial staffs. The meals alone involved prodigious waste: one massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew. The host would often perform a ceremony roughly equivalent to lighting a cigar with a $100 bill: he ladled out the savory fish oil onto the fire. The stoic guests proved themselves unimpressed by sitting motionless even...
...Germanic People." The Battle of Britain brings Kesselring to some of his most controversial thinking about the war itself. He contends 1) that the Luftwaffe was not defeated in the air over Britain, 2) that Operation "Sea-Lion," the invasion of Britain, was thought about but never seriously planned. If the Luftwaffe had been decisively bested in September 1940, argues Kesselring, it could not have continued hitting British industrial targets for the rest of that year and the spring of 1941. German planes were squandered, he admits, when they might better have been saved for a combined assault by sea...