About the Author:
Michael Bright is a senior producer at the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit (NHU) in Bristol, UK. A graduate of the University of London, he joined BBC Radio's Science Unit in 1971. After a spell in television on Tomorrow's World and Horizon, he moved to the NHU in 1979. He was editor of the NHU's radio section for many years, and a recipient of the prestigious Prix Italia for the feature Men, Nations and Whales: Will the Bloody Story Never End?, before moving to television for Wildlife on One and Natural World. He was producer of the environmental series Nature and the children's drama Earthstars, and he set up the NHU's commercial arm, Wildvision. He has written more than 55 books, including Animal Language, Gorillas, and Andes to Amazon: A Guide to Wild South America for the BBC.
From School Library Journal:
Adult/High School-Numerous color photographs, readable texts, and fun bits of trivia make this a solid introductory series for teens. Based on programs produced for the BBC/Discovery channel, Dolphins and Whales discuss anatomy, social structure, environment, food habits, echolocation, and relationship to humans with particular pleas for conservation and not theme parks. Fish covers environment, camouflage, ecology, electric fields, and mating. A star denotes a short bit of related trivia and elsewhere a triangle introduces a paragraph of similar information. Fully half of the space is devoted to the excellent-quality color photography; each picture is clearly labeled with a full sentence caption.
Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
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