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Mike Tove's new book



I would like to second what Harry LeGrand had to say about Mike Tove's new
book on pelagic wildlife.  I had a couple of hours to look through it as
several of us sat around John Fussell's living room the night before the
Morehead City Christmas Count.  It was difficult to concentrate on the book
because we kept glancing at the Weather Channel, trying to decide whether
the following day would really be as awful as predicted.  It was.

Mike's book, on the other hand, looks great.  The plates are esthetically
very pleasing -- quite detailed and beautiful to look at.  I look at
Harrison's plates to see field marks of the seabirds.  The plates in Mike's
new book I looked at for that same purpose, but found myself enjoying the
beauty of the artistic rendering just as much.

Like Harry, I won't attempt to comment on the technical correctness of the
renderings, but will note that this book clearly breaks new ground (or
should I say water).  When Mike first started talking about doing this book,
I had major reservations about the wisdom of attempting to portray more than
one major animal group in the same book.  However, it appears to me that the
result is well thought out and done very successfully.  Of course, it should
be noted that it is the very rare individual who can do a good job both with
the pen and with the brush.

If this book is well received by the experts who will review it in coming
months, it will be well received on both sides of the Atlantic.  It should
be equally useful to bird watchers and whale watchers both in the United
States and in Europe.

I understand that a companion book for the Pacific may be next.

John
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