The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific

Julia Whitty was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and emigrated as a child to the United States with her Tasmanian father and Anglo-Indian mother. She holds dual American and Australian citizenships. Travel and other cross-cultural experiments are in her blood.Her latest award-winning book, The Fragile Edge: Diving & Other Adventures in the South Pacific, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 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.Julia Whitty is the author of 'The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific', published 2007 under ISBN 9780618197163 and ISBN 0618197168.