| in snuanons SUCh as mese. sclenunc researchers in every part o~the United States and Canada rely on the extraordinary skills,knowledge,_and services of a man like Jack Rudloe, a professionalbiological collector and superlative nature writer. Poachers as wellas green turtles, shrimpers as well as batfish, seafaring philoso-phers as well as sea robins are the true-to-life characters in JackRudloe s memorable book about the long wilderness coast ofnorthwest Florida. The reader soon comes to feel a common stakein the varied commercial efforts of the author-collector and hisGulf Coast friends, a fine down-home gallery of shrimpers, oyster-men, and crabbers whose overflowing nets are gleaned by JackRudloe for highly valuable "trash" creatures useful to medicalresearch centers but worthless to them. Mr. Rudloe s collecting adventures with giant cockles, sea pan-sies, blood clams, lugworms, conchs, sharks, crabs, and seacucumbers are exciting, but his trials and errors in his combinedwarehouse, laboratory, and shipping point learning to pack anddispatch some of the oddest creatures on earth are fascinating aswell. A carton filled with dry ice or a simple crate stuffed with eel-grass may suffice for some, but the resourceful collector finds heneeds all the imagination and ingenuity he can muster to make suremany delicate animals--such as sharks--survive their jet-air jour-~eys to distant researchers |
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