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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.

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, Nati...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 88 ratings · 27 reviews · 3 distinct works

	A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga: Stories 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean 3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:

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