Rating: WORTHY!
This is another beautifully illustrated look at wild life. No text, just images. The first one I read was The Tiger. This one follows the one-eyed fox which put in merely a cameo appearance in the other volume.
The fox is out, as ever, slinking through the long grass under the shady trees, searching for the next meal, observed by the musk oxen, but too busy itself to pay attention to the beauty around it - beauty which is shortly to be violently ripped away. From here we're led beautifully from one scene - one species - to another, encompassing mammalian, avian, and piscean animals, including a scary encounter between a whale, its calf, and a pod of Orcas.
All seems normal, everyday, ordinary in this world until a nearby volcano erupts, and then the world turns nasty, brutish, and short. As predators and nature itself - the greatest predator of all - take down one animal after another, and the world which these animals inhabit turns almost literally upside down, the fox has one, and only one thing on its mind - and it's not taking down the rabbit warren. It's not even self-preservation. It's something far more important.
I Highly recommend this series because the art work is truly magnificent. The authors also includes a pictorial glossary of species at the end so you can identify everything you've seen if you didn't recognize it from the story itself.
