Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea : Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor (Hardcover)

from AbigailAdams26

The daughter of a traveling surveyor, Marie Tharp grew up with a keen interest in maps and cartography, eventually going on to earn degrees in music, English, mathematics and geology. Despite the resistance to women participating fully in the sciences in the 1940s, she went on to get a job at the...

from melodyreads

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from LibrarianRyan

This is a wonderful biography of a woman who combined science and art to make a name for herself. Her discoveries helped prove they were mountains under the water, and that continental drift was a real thing. This book is lovingly done and well illustrated. For a children's picture book it's done...

from nbmars

Author Robert Burleigh and illustrator Raúl Colón, the team that brought us the story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the pioneering astronomer, now tell the story of another remarkable woman, Marie Tharp (1920-2006), who helped to map the ocean floor. The book is written in the first person, as if Ma...

from Bertha_

I read this after my 8 year old read it. Honestly, it was really good! Great illustrations, great writing and incredibly informative. I can't wait to get and read the grown-up version of this book!