A World of Turtles

by McNamee, Gregory; Urrea, Luis Alberto

• ISBN13: 9781555661908
• ISBN10: 1555661904
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Johnson Books

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Turtle Island, Abenaki myth	1	(1)
The Creation, Maidu folktale	2	(2)
Kana Rescues Hina, Hawai'ian myth	4	(2)
Reflections on a Tortoise, Gilbert White	6	(5)
Maya Turtle, Antonio Mediz Bolio	11	(2)
A Dead Turtle, African-American folktale	13	(2)
Turtle-Catching Medicine, Tule Indian song	15	(3)
The Friendship of the Tortoise and the Eagle, Central African folktale	18	(3)
Snapper, Franklin Burroughs	21	(10)
Turtle and Wolf, Alabama-Coushatta folktale	31	(1)
The Tortoise and the Peacocks, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz	32	(2)
Two Fables, Aesop	34	(2)
How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit, Cherokee folktale	36	(3)
Tortoise on the Hoof, Edward Lear	39	(1)
Wayamba the Turtle, Wagarra folktale	40	(3)
The Plowshare Turtles of Madagascar, Gerald Durrell	43	(2)
Two Turtle Tunes, Akimel O'odham folksongs	45	(1)
The Leopard Tortoise, Bushman folktale	46	(2)
Ancient Knowledge, Aelian	48	(3)
Two Sides to a Tortoise, Herman Melville	51	(6)
Why the Tortoise Has a Round Back, Romanian folktale	57	(2)
Desert Tortoises, John Cloudsley-Thompson	59	(5)
Twelve Men and a Turtle, Lenape folktale	64	(2)
Sea Turtles, Aristotle	66	(2)
Albanian Tortoises, Edith Durham	68	(2)
An Irresistible Necessity for Turtles, Henry David Thoreau	70	(5)
Tortuga, Luis Alberto Urrea	75	(6)
A Pool of Turtles, Ibn Sara	81	(1)
Pack Turtles, Arizona folklore	82	(2)
Turtle Songs, Traditional Japanese folksongs	84	(2)
Proverbs and Sayings	86	(2)
Trickster, Tukano myth	88	(3)
Making the Sign of the Tortoise, W. P. Clark	91	(1)
Partridge and Turtle, Mbundu folktale	92	(2)
Galapagos Tortoises, Charles Darwin	94	(5)
The Magical Tortoise, Assamese folktale	99	(2)
Turtle, Jose Juan Tablada	101	(1)
Florida Tortoises, William Bartram	102	(3)
The Tortoise and His Frog Wife, Algerian folktale	105	(4)
Turtle Magic, Pliny the Elder	109	(1)
Loggerheads, Thomas Barbour	110	(3)
The Seditious Tortoise, Igbo folktale	113	(2)
Turtle Soup, Lewis Carroll	115	(1)
The Children and the Tortoise, Gunwinggu folktale	116	(2)
The Hungry Spider and the Turtle, Ashante folktale	118	(2)
Cayou Caouan: Sojourn of a Snapper, Rocklin G.	120	(6)
The Wonderful Turtle, Chippewa folktale	126	(4)
The Courage of Turtles, Edward Hoagland	130	(10)
Elegy for the Giant Tortoises, Margaret Atwood	140	(2)
Postscript	142	(5)
Bibliography	147