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...year, a hard-working freshman in the coursed handed in her lake-home exam with a little blue whale drawn on the title page. The paper was well-written and through and she received a straight...
...insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize the young: crocodiles swallow stones to aid digestion; giraffes give birth standing up; the sperm whale can hold its breath for an hour. No illustration is more comically apropos than the one of St. Nicholas pulled by a sole reindeer. As wolves pursue his sleigh, Santa diverts them by tossing wrapped packages overboard. After all, even predators deserve happy holidays...
...hardest part about filmmaking is finding a sponsor who is often more elusive than any animal in the wild. Young got his first break from a Canadian naturalist who spent his summers giving "Whale Watch" tours off the coast of Newfoundland. Because Andy already had his own equipment and several years of field experience under his belt the most recent of which was the year between high school and college spent observing and photographing bears in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park the Canadian scientist was happy to hire a person like Andy. Originally taken on as a general assistant...
...place known only as "The Castle," she brings him fruit and milk on a tray reminiscent of a Cezanne still-life. Her lover, the master of The Castle, spends most of his time sitting in a dimly lit room doing a giant wave jigsaw puzzle while listening to whale noises. He also cooks fabulous French food and owns not one, but two elderly white Citroens...
...MILES from the nearest flicker of civilization, in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, a mile-long clearing has been hacked to connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal clasp...