Resources: Nature's Riches

By Roy A. Gallant

Roy A. Gallant, called "one of the deans of American science writers for children" by School Library Journal, is the author of almost one hundred books on scientific subjects, including the best-selling National Geographic Society's Atlas of Our Universe. Among his many other books are When the Sun Dies; Earth: The Making of a Planet; Before the Sun Dies; Earth's Vanishing forests; The Day the Sky Split Apart, which won the 1997 John Burroughs award for nature writing; and Meteorite Hunter, a collection of accounts about his expeditions to Siberia to document major meteorite impact crater events. His most recent award is a lifetime achievement award presented to him by the Maine Library Association. From 1979 to 2000, (professor emeritus) Gallant was director of the Southworth Planetarium at the University of Southern Maine. He has taught astronomy there and at the Maine College of Art. For several years he was on the staff of New York's American Museum of Natural History and a member of the faculty of the museum's Hayden Planetarium. His specialty is documenting on film and in writing the history of major Siberian meterorite impact sites. To date, he has organized eight expeditions to Russia and is planning his ninth, which will take him into the Altai Mountains near Mongolia. He has written articles about his expeditions for Sky & Telescope magazine and for the journal Meteorite. Professor Gallant is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He lives in Rangeley, Maine. Book jacket.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761413693
• ISBN13: 9780761413691
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8