Great Shark Stories

TAYLOR, RON

Taylor, Valerie

BANTAM BOOKS

Melody is a confident, adventurous young mermaid, the daughter of the king and queen of the Kingdom of Pearl. While her seven mersisters all have golden curls, Melody's long hair is a beautiful shade of green.Melody's adventurous nature -- and her unusual looks -- get her into trouble when she goes looking for her friend Leafy, a young leafy sea dragon who's gone missing. Melody sees Leafy being lured away by two moray eels. Soon Leafy gets caught in a dangerous current and is carried away.Melody must rescue Leafy. To do so, she has to leave the safety of her own kingdom and venture far into other kingdoms of the sea. In her brave but potentially foolish quest to save Leafy Melody faces dangerous challenges, including being caught in a net, a trap set by a menacing hermit crab.Children of all ages will be cheering for Melody as she seeks to save her friend Leafy and return home safely to the Kingdom of Pearl.Written and artfully illustrated by world famous Australian undersea explorer and film maker Valerie Taylor, this book is a collector's edition sure to be a favorite by adventure lovers of all ages.

Melody the Mermaid: Adventures in the Kingdoms of the Sea

Children's Books

Animals

Castle Creative

Product Description 
At 83 years old, Valerie Taylor has lived a big, bold adventurous life.\nBorn in Australia, Valerie spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before she could walk unaided. When Valerie was fifteen, she found work as an animator and moved back to Australia with her family. All the while she thrived on being close to the ocean, and was a keen spear fisher.\nIn the 1950s, she met Ron Taylor and then her real adventures started. Together they sailed all over the world, photographing and filming their travels for magazines, TV and movies, and making many documentaries. Valerie and Ron became interested in conservation, and focused on sharks in particular. They did all the shark work on 
Jaws, and James Cameron decided he wanted to become a filmmaker because of Valerie and her husband.\nValerie is working with the brilliant Ben Mckelvey to share her story of falling in love with the ocean and with her husband, Ron. From trainee animator to Spielberg, from 
JAWS to 
BLUE LAGOON, this is the remarkable story of an incredible woman. 
 About the Author 
Valerie Taylor (Author) 
Valerie Taylor is a pioneering diver, shark advocate, conservationist and artist. An acclaimed spear fisher, she met her husband Ron through this sport and together they became a formidable team and pioneers of skindiving, underwater photography and cinematography. They were the first to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage and made countless shark films, including 
Blue Water, White Death, which led to their work with Steven Spielberg on 
Jaws. A renowned conservationist, Valerie has compaigned for the protection of Australia's wild oceans, islands and reefs including the Great Barrier Reef before it was given World Heritage status. She was awarded the Order of Australia in 2003 for her conservation efforts. Valerie lives in Sydney and, at 83, is still diving and still fighting for us to save our oceans.\nBen Mckelvey (Author) 
Ben Mckelvey is a freelance writer and editor from Sydney who has filed for 
Good Weekend, 
GQ, 
Voyeur, 
Rolling Stone, 
The Bulletin, 
Cosmo, 
Cleo and the 
Age and 
West Australian newspapers. Ben's previous gigs have included editing 
Sports&Style and 
Juice magazines, and working at the 
Sydney Morning Herald as a Senior Feature Writer. He has been embedded with the ADF in East Timor and Iraq, and has worked independently in Iran and Afghanistan.

Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life: The remarkable story of the trailblazing ocean conservationist, photographer and shark expert

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hachette Australia

Dive through the "layers" of the sea with world-renowned shark experts Ron and Valerie Taylor --from the sunlit zone through the twilight zone, until finally reaching the uncharted abyss. Visit the seabed to find out more about the plants, animals, and ghostly shipwrecks that can be found there. Along the way, peer through diecut portholes inside the Titanic, lift the transparent pages to reveal the inside of a submarine, discover what goes on inside an undersea laboratory, and consider all of the unknowns that wait below in the mysterious darkness of the unexplored depths.

Oceans (Kingfisher Voyages)

Taylor, Rod

Savage, Steven

Literature & Fiction

Kingfisher

Prism

LGBTQ+ Books

Naiad Pr

Clean bright covers have slight creasing. Last few pages have blemish at margin edge - no text is affected. LISTEDBY(KAD)

Journey to Fulfillment

Ripening

Religion & Spirituality

Edward-William Pub Co

Applying for welfare, Marty meets and falls in love with Thea, and the two women decide to pool resources by sharing a barrio apartment

Rice and Beans

United States

Valérie

Taylor with Peter Goadby, Ron

The Crowood Press

Pioneers of underwater photography and shark experts Ron and Valerie Taylor chronicle their forty years of precedent setting exploits in nature's richest underwater realm.

Blue Wilderness

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Fourth Day Pub Inc

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