About Volcanic Adventures in Tonga – Species Conservation on Tin Can Island by Ann Göth
The wonder of the South Pacific comes alive in this real-life adventure story. A travel memoir based on the experiences of a young conservation scientist in Tonga. The delights and harsh realities of life on tropical islands are revealed in detail.
Are you a traveler with a wanderlust for faraway islands, an enthusiast for Tongan culture, an explorer wanting to learn about a mysterious part of the world, or a lover of exotic birds? This thrilling adventure takes you to far-away places – volcanoes overdue to erupt and coral cays rarely visited by most people.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live a simple existence on a remote Pacific Island? To leave the world behind and live in ‘Tongan Time’? Are you intrigued to learn about the mysterious ‘volcano bird’ that buries its eggs and abandons it’s chicks completely?
Join Ann and her boyfriend on an 17-month escapade on the isolated Tongan islands, where they try to save an endangered bird from extinction while living in a very different culture to their own. Guided by a youthful passion for conservation and authentic cultures, Ann tests her physical and mental stamina when confronted with cyclones, stifling humidity, stinging bugs, little fresh food, illness and the imminent danger of volcanic eruptions.
This book is likely to leave you grateful for home comforts of electricity, showers, the internet and books to read, or perhaps it will entice you to consider a life changing adventure of your own. You can achieve far more than you ever imagine!
This book has received the following recommendation from the Author Professor Darryl Jones: “A book that has all the adventure, intrigue, romance, discovery and danger you would expect from one of those breathless traveler’s tales from the past. This time, however, the story is true and the adventure real.”
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Author Bio:
Dr. Ann Göth has always been a traveler with a wanderlust for places where nature reveals its amazing beauty and hidden wonders. She now lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband, son and two budgerigars, where she settled down after a Heidi-like childhood in the Austrian mountains and having moved across the world.
While studying Biology in Austria, Ann and her boyfriend took a two-year break to venture to Tonga in the South Pacific, where the two explorers hoped to help save an endangered ‘volcano bird’ from extinction. Her newest book, “Volcanic Adventures in Tonga”, is a memoir and adventure story about this expedition. It has earned her a Literary Titan Gold Award and several appearances on radio, blog sites and podcasts.
Since then, Ann has worked with mine detection dogs for the UN in Geneva and created displays for the Braunschweig Natural History Museum in Germany before moving to Australia. Here, her love of the ‘volcano bird’ lead her to study a related species, the Australian Brush-turkey. This bird uses a compost mound instead of a volcano for incubation. Fascinated by young birds that don’t need parents to grow up, she completed a PhD on their development and published the book “Mound-builders” with her PhD supervisor Prof. Darryl Jones.
Life as a biologist lead her to jobs as a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney and as a Threatened Species Officer for the NSW government. Nowadays, she aims to pass on her passion for nature and science as a high school teacher at Meriden School in Sydney. She also uses slide shows all over the city to convince Sydneysiders that Australian brush-turkeys are fascinating and worth watching, even if they dig up people’s gardens in the process of building their mounds.
For this book, Ann has recently been awarded a Literary Titan Gold Award, and been interviewed on the Australian ABC radio station.