About the Book: Oceanic Manta Adventure: Saving the Angels of the Sea
Sibert Medalist, National Book Award Honoree, and New York Times bestselling
author Sy Montgomery dives below the surface to study giant manta rays in
Ecuador in this final installment in the award-winning Scientists in the Field
series.
On the vast Pacific, the ocean heaves and sighs like a beating heart. But dive
beneath the surface, and angels appear. Giant manta rays—wider than a car is
long, with wingspans stretching up to twenty feet—glide past with balletic
grace, then vanish into the murky blue. They can soar to depths of nearly a
mile,