Living Mirrors: A Coral Reef Adventure
Jack Stephens is a marine life enthusiast and New York-based writer, whose 1990 book Triangulation was praised by The Los Angeles Times for being "what you hope a first novel will be, and hardly ever is." He has contributed articles on travel, outdoor sports, and connoisseurship to magazines as diverse as Sports Afield, Travel & Leisure, and Men's Journal.; Jean-Michel Cousteau (Contributions) grew up taking part in the famed expeditions of his father, Jacques Cousteau.  His Project Ocean Seearch has been bringing young people from around the world to the British Virgin Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea to learn about marine ecology for over 25 years.  His team also launched the Sustainable Reefs Program in several South Pacific Island nations.  Cousteau lives in Santa Barbara, California.; Howard and Michele Hall (Contributions) produce natural history films specializing in marine wildlife, and have received seven Emmy's.  Howard Hall photographed spectacular underwater sequences for the Academy Award-nominated film The Living Sea (1995), and more recently Journey Into Amazing Caves (2000).  The Halls live in Del Mar, California.; E.O. Wilson (Afterword) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990), as well as The Future Of Life (2002).  Honorary Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Wilson is a board director of the Nature Conservancy and the American Museum of Natural History.  He lives in Lexington, Mass.