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Successful Go Wild author Brad Matsen is now the talk of the town with his new book Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, a saga of two New York-based underwater explorers. With Go Wild in New York City, Matsen provided readers with a novel approach to urban ecology. The popularity of the book and the uniqueness of the strategy prompted NNYN to launch the Urban Nature Media Workshop to develop similar books for other major cities, including Boston, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles.

On May 11 Matsen is scheduled to appear on New York's WPIX Channel 11 to talk about Go Wild and things children can do with nature in New York. Go Wild is also featured in a full-page New Yorker(April 18) ad to commemorate Earth Day.

Matsen has been writing about nature and the sea for many years. His works include the award-winning Deep-Sea Adventures series for children, Planet Ocean, Faces of Fishing and Fishing Up North. Descent is about Otis Barton & William Beebe, two New York-based explorers who took a bathysphere down into the ocean sixteen times between June 1930 and August 1934 -- to depths as much as three thousand feet.

"They were the first human beings to descend beyond sunlight to a world of eternal darkness, inhabited by creatures out of nightmares, predators emblazoned with colored lights whose survival depends on frightening tactics of allure and deception," writes Matsen in Descent. In the April 11th New Yorker, writer Adam Green applauds Descent and writes about Matsen and the bathysphere.