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  • Location: Atlantic Ocean, Tuga island (fictional)

Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Why a Booktrail?

2024: Sail to the tropical paradise where secrets don’t stay hidden for long …

  • ISBN: 978-1784745387
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

Zoologist Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises in the jungle interior. She can claim the best of reasons for this year in paradise – what better motivation than to save a species? – but the reality is more complex. For Charlotte has a secret that connects her to the island and has finally determined to solve the mystery …

Travel Guide

Tuga

A fictional island sadly in the middle of the  South Atlantic Ocean. It transports the reader to an island that time forgot.

Charlotte is a young vet from London and she travels to Tuga to study the Gold Coin tortoise. Imagine how exciting this would be? The island sounds amazing and just the fact that these amazing creatures are there make it magical. There’s a whole cast of characters who live on this remote island. It can only be accessed from the sea and takes months to get to so it is totally isolated. In hurricane season, it’s closed off completely.

she has a secondary motive that relates to a search for her identity. This might be a great book to read on a beach vacation.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Destination: South Atlantic Ocean, ‘Tuga’  Author/guide: Francesca Segal   Departure Time: 2024

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