{"id":35,"date":"2010-06-17T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2010-06-30T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:49:38","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always fun to read a novel that&#8217;s set in a place you&#8217;re visiting. Travel writing and guides are good too. Here&#8217;s a selection of books for anyone contemplating a visit!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine<\/li>\n<li>Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville<\/li>\n<li>A Taxonomy of Barnacles by <span>Galt Niederhoffer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Confessing a Murder by Nicholas  Drayson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Mr. Darwin&#8217;s Shooter by Roger  McDonald<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Origin of Species by Nino  Ricci<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>To the Edge of the World by Harry  Thompson<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Travel writing and other non-fiction<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floreana by Margaret Wittmer<\/li>\n<li>Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin<\/li>\n<li>Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon by Henry Nicholls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Travel guides<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (Lonely Planet)<\/li>\n<li>Galapagos: the Islands that Changed the World (BBC 3-part documentary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always fun to read a novel that&#8217;s set in a place you&#8217;re visiting. Travel writing and guides are good too. Here&#8217;s a selection of books for anyone contemplating a visit! Novels Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville A Taxonomy of Barnacles by Galt Niederhoffer Confessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}