The Great African Spur-Thighed or Sulcata Tortoise

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Summary: This book is a reference for Sulcata's Owner.
Review: I enjoyed this book, and I go back to it many times.... R.C. Paull writes with an easy style and a great sense of humor.

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Summary: Awful. Bad info and my kids write better!
Review: I hesitate to dignify this title as a "book". It is badly written, full of racial and sexist insults, details of crime in Miami, the author's right-wing rantings - and precious little of genuine relevance to tortoises. Much of what is printed is just plain wrong. Badly researched and mis-represented. Even the title is wrong!! This is the African SPURRED tortoise - not SPUR-THIGHED tortoise. What a mistake..... but it reflects the bizarre content inside. As for production quality - it looks like it was photocopied as Kinko's on a bad day. What little content there is that is relevant could be squeezed onto the back of a postage stamp. The author/self-publisher has a real nerve putting stuff like this out in the first place. I agree with other reviewers who categorize this as a total rip-off. Don't waste your time and money. There are many, many better books out there - and very few indeed that are as badly written and produced as this garbage.

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Summary: Awful. Bad info and my kids write better!
Review: Richard Paull is not a great writer, a few marbles short maybe, but he knows a lot about tortoises. There are several "tortoise and turtle" books out there that do not have a clue about raising tortoises. I have been raising them for years and this book (and his others) and any information put out by Tortoise Trust can be trusted. Yes his "dipping story" is a little annoying, his humor a bit strange and you have to read through a lot of "BS" to get the information, but the info is there.

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Summary: A lot of "BS" to read through, but the correct info is there
Review: Richard Paull is not a great writer, a few marbles short maybe, but he knows a lot about tortoises. There are several "tortoise and turtle" books out there that do not have a clue about raising tortoises. I have been raising them for years and this book (and his others) and any information put out by Tortoise Trust can be trusted. Yes his "dipping story" is a little annoying, his humor a bit strange and you have to read through a lot of "BS" to get the information, but the info is there.