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...Tomine's drawings cap the naturalist style of the stories. He goes strictly for realism, using a fine pen to get all the details. You can even read the menu board behind the coffee counter. Angles, framing, and pace are all, for better or worse, at the service of the characters and story. While he may not win awards for graphic innovation, Tomine has a real talent for easy comix storytelling...
...newest additions are titi monkeys, a group of cat-size creatures that form humanlike families consisting of a pair of adults--which mate for life--and their offspring. One, Callicebus bernhardi, is named for Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a noted naturalist. The other is dubbed C. stephennashi, after Stephen Nash, a scientific illustrator...
...murder scene too late. The cranes' struggles in their eroding habitats are depressingly familiar but Matthiessen and his fellow "craniacs" remain undaunted. His book, like his life, is a tribute to the fight against the destruction of nature and, in a deeper sense, the personal struggle with what the naturalist Louis Crisler called the inextricable link between "love [of the earth] and despair...
...this is just a reporter’s story,” Nabokov said. “It just came to the paper after passing through several sources, none of whom was a naturalist...
...would become the reigning expert on chimpanzee behavior. Her discoveries about man's close cousins, showing that chimps made and used tools (most famously, adapting sticks to hunt for termites), electrified the academic world. But now, many books and National Geographic specials later, she is more than a famous naturalist. She has become a scientific saint and the recipient of many honors, including the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence, just given to her by the Millennium World Peace Summit...