Coral Reefs: Exploring the World Below [Paperback]

Joseph E. Wallace (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567991556
• ISBN-13: 978-1567991550
• Product Dimensions: 13 x 9.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,769,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The best thing about being a writer is getting the chance to live inside the worlds I write about. For example, I spent so much time researching dinosaurs for my first book that I sometimes found myself looking over my shoulder for rogue Velociraptors. When I started writing about baseball history, I dreamed of sitting in the grandstands, watching old-time baseball deities in person. Finally, for my first novel, Diamond Ruby, I became immersed in New York City during one of the wildest eras in its history: the Roaring Twenties. Recreating that world allowed me to portray the great Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other real-life characters as I imagined them to be. Even more fun was the chance to place my teenage heroine, Ruby Lee Thomas, smack in the middle of a world bristling with gangsters, rum-runners, and hucksters. I loved following Ruby through those exciting, dangerous times--which is why I'm already writing her next adventure, set in Hollywood in 1927.