This engaging biography of the explorer, naturalist, bestselling writer and underwater pioneer draws, for the first time, on the letters and journals Will Beebe kept from 1887 until his death in 1962. A popular science writer, Carol Grant Gould captures the curiosity and energy of Beebe, following his adventures from the bathysphere to the Galapagos, British Guiana, and at the Bronx Zoo, where he was the first curator of birds.  (NAT70, $25.00)