Book: The Fragile Edge
Item Number: 165
Time Left: CLOSED
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A master diver and filmmaker on the mystery, fragility--and heart-stopping adventure--of underwater life in the South Pacific Writer and filmmaker Julia Whitty will make even the most landlocked among us feel that we have been privy to the mystery and wonder of the undersea world.The product of a scientist's mind, a sociologist's eye, a Zen Buddhist's soul, and a poet's heart, The Fragile Edge is at once a natural history, a call to action, a love song, and a prayer. --Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Sight Hound, in O, the Oprah Magazine
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Julia Whitty was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and emigrated as a child to the United States with her Tasmanian father and Anglo-Indian mother. Travel and other cross-cultural experiments are in her blood. Her latest book, The Fragile Edge: Diving & Other Adventures in the South Pacific, was published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2007. Her first book, A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga, is an award-winning collection of short stories published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002 and translated into German by Marebuchverlag and Italian by Sartorio Editore. She's Environmental Correspondent at Mother Jones magazine, and a blogger at The Blue Marble. A former filmmaker, her more than 70 nature documentaries have aired on PBS, Nature, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Outdoor Life Channel, Arts & Entertainment, and with many other broadcasters worldwide. Whitty is on the Board of Advisors of BlueVoice. She lives in Northern California.
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