Resources Nature's Riches

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.Resources Nature's Riches, with ISBN 9780761413691 and ISBN 0761413693.