Whit Gibbons is an accomplished, much-published biologist, and Anne Gibbons is a freelance editor, indexer, and author. Distinguished biologist John Cairns Jr. introduces the volume. Each chapter includes subtitled, folksy, usually humorous accounts of personal experiences. Most stories are ecologically oriented and involve interactions between people and animals. The authors have written so skillfully, however, that readers will find this book delightful and its lessons painless to absorb.
Technical terminology is avoided.
The few monochrome illustrations of various animals are primarily decorative. Ecoviews is highly recommended for all teenagers and adults, and should be in every high school, municipal, and college library. Johns Hopkins, 1998. This is a well-developed, thoughtful, and classic book that has been tested and improved through many years in the classroom. As a traditional forest geneticist with recent leanings toward forest biotechnology, this reviewer especially appreciated the linkages provided to molecular biology and population genetics.