If you have read his Following Birds to the Ends of the Earth, The Disappearing Subtropics or Woodcut Records of Taiwan's Birds, then you will know that there has finally been born the rare species of a novelist who can describe zoological ecology.
如果你讀過他寫的《隨鳥走天涯》，或是《消失的亞熱帶》、《台灣鳥木刻紀實》，你就知道一個難得的可以描寫動物生態的小說家終於誕生了。