Surprisingly excellent book about turtles with 95 full color photographs and illustrations. The author has simplified the "story" of turtles while providing details needed by pet keepers. Useful facts, pertinent details, accurate. Chapters Getting Started; Turtle Reproduction; Feeding Your Turtle; Housing Your Turtle; How to Care for Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Turtles; Terrestrial Turtles; Index. Turtle intelligence. Turtle vision. Sea turtles. Breeding turtles. Turtle aquariums. Turtle desert habitat. Feeding of turtles. Turtle hibernation. Turtle health. Turtle longevity. Taxonomy of turtles. Suitable pet turtle species.