About the Author Ray Bradbury���had���a career spanning more than seventy years, and has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Product Description Describes in text and photographs the natural history of the harp seal, its physical characteristics, breeding, migratory and behavioral patterns, and natural environment. Also discusses the annual seal hunt in Canada.