if we were talking in musical terms then, Burl is jazz and cope is funk ("jazz is the teacher, funk is the preacher")...can you dig it?
What Burl gives you is perspective.
Burl has spent a lifetime getting deep with his subject, so what you or I see as unique, Burl sees the comparison with another part of the Islands.
Burl has the big picture, he helps us gain our perspective, plus he knows a shitload of stuff about EVERYTHING.
His mighty tome was republished/updated/rereleased last year, I haven't read the new edition so I can't comment.....but if the birthday fairy is real..............
Fitz