Sylvia Earle: Guardian of the Sea (Lerner Biographies)
Grade 5-9-A readable, reasonably detailed biography of the marine biologist and deep-sea diver who, like Jacques Cousteau, has been a major guardian voice for our planetary ocean. Baker's rather staid text accurately follows Earle's career, from her childhood fascination with a backyard pond to her many projects and expeditions, and ends in 1998, when she was named Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society. Numerous black-and-white and full-color photographs document Earle's life, from writing letters to Santa Claus with her brothers to exploring the Persian Gulf after the Gulf War. This book conveys the subject's enthusiasm for diving and her daring in undertaking dangerous projects, but for an exposure to her personal keenness, team it with Earle's own simpler Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier (National Geographic, 1999).Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NYCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.