The Girl Who Built an Ocean: An Artist, an Argonaut, and the True Story of the World's First Aquarium

Jess Keating; Michelle Mee Nutter (Illustrator)

The inspiring tale of a seamstress-turned-scientist who invented the world's first aquarium at a time when women in STEM were startlingly rare.   The daughter of a seamstress and a cobbler, Jeanne Villepreux-Power began her career as a dressmaker, sewing beautiful gowns for the Parisian aristocracy. B...