I recently reread this book while preparing for a job interview. I wrote it in 1989-89 and am amazed by the amount of research that went into it -- young readers can learn about the salt water (the oceans, etc), fresh water (the river quiz is very useful -- I just tried it out on high school students), the politics of water which is rather timely now that some Canadian companies are trying to sell off the Great Lakes, etc. Teachers will find a bit of everything in this collection of activities, games, and short articles. The illustration of Columbus holding a Native person in a friendly embrace is NOT my doing: I tried in fact to get it out of the first edition and the second! Hope you like the book.

We purchased this book in preparation for a family snorkeling trip to the Bahamas Out Islands. We don't scuba dive, so we were specifically looking for snorkeling information. Since this book includes "Snorkeling" in its title, we assumed there would be some specific snorkeling info included.

We were very disappointed as the entire book is devoted to dive-sites. Including "snorkeling" in the book title is, we feel, false advertising. I'm not sure the word snorkeling is ever used any where inside the book aside from the title page.

Even for dive information, the book falls short. For instance, there are no maps or directions to indicate approximately where the dive sites are located or how to get to them.

I would not recommend this book. There must be other more informative, more comprehensive books on the subject. I wish I had remembered to return the book to Amazon.com within the alloted time period. For our purposes, it was a waste of money.