Meeting Dolphins: My Adventures In The Sea

By Kathleen Dudzinski, featured in DOLPHINS, a film for IMAX theatres. National Geographic Society (2000)

Meeting Dolphins: My Adventures in the Sea by Kathleen Dudzinski is a wonderfully simple book that tells a great deal about dolphins! The text is remarkably concise, with each page featuring a whole new and interesting aspect of Dudzinski's work and experiences. Yet she still manages to keep it personal enough so that the reader is interested and intrigued. And, this National Geographic book lives up to the magazine's reputation for spectacular photography. In just 6l beautiful pages, Dudzinski covers her beginnings in New England and what made her choose marine biology as a profession, with a speciality in dolphin communication in the wild. Interlaced with this are the many things she had to learn about her subjects, both by scientific investigation and by accident, giving the reader an insider's view of what science is really all about. Then there are the skills she had to master to move about underwater gathering data from some of the most agile swimmers in the sea, which makes the book a tale of adventure, as well as discovery.

All of the above add up to making Meeting Dolphins an outstanding choice for readers of any age. You will learn a lot about dolphins and the author in a very short, enjoyable read!