_The Wildlife of Star Wars, A Field Guide_, Terryl Whitlatch & Bob Carrau
rms
Highly recommended. This is a gorgeous book, from the huge, over-sized
format, to the rich pebble-textured Fambaa-leather (ok, the
www.chroniclebooks.com website says it's Dewback hide, but I'll take issue
with that, given the specific mention of Fambaa leather in the book)
covering, to the comparative animal-size chart spanning both inside covers,
to the wonderful full-page paintings, to the engaging captions, to the
superb choice of hand-written typeface.
The book is organized by Star Wars-universe planets, in loose imitation of a
nature field-guide, with several illustrations for each animal species in
various postures and actions, along with brief captions describing the
animal's characteristics, breeding habits, habitat, and behaviour. Reading
about the feeding habits of a Space Slug or Sarlacc will elicit a joyous
chuckle from even casual movie fans.
The pen-and-ink illustrations are magnificent, with a variety and playful
vitality that is a feast for the eyes. The artist Terryl Whitlatch was the
principle creature designer for Episode One, and...what else can be said.
These illustrations should be an example to follow for other field-guides
(I'm thinking of dinosaur picture books in particular) with their static,
stiff-looking posed animals.
Accompanying these pictures are captions in imitation of field-guide
descriptions, incorporating common biological descriptive terminology.
Engagingly written, with a light touch and occasional dry humor, I was never
bored in reading about the way-out but perfectly plausible animal behavior,
and left in wonder at the imagination that created them.
rms
Anybody
<rsqu...@flashREMOVE.net> wrote:
Typical advertisement - no mention anywhere in there about the
horrendouslt over-priced cost of the book. ;-)
jadel
rms wrote:
> _The Wildlife of Star Wars, A Field Guide_, Terryl Whitlatch & Bob Carrau
> Engagingly written, with a light touch and occasional dry humor, I was never
> bored ....
You were engagingly written, with a light touch and occasional dry
humor?
You see yourself as a character somehow?
J. Del Col
rms
> horrendouslt over-priced cost of the book. ;-)
I checked it from the local library. Always vote Y on library bonds!
rms