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Slippery beast : a true crime natural history, with eels / Ellen Ruppel Shell.

Shell, Ellen Ruppel, 1952- (author.).

Summary:

"What is it about eels? Depending on who you ask, they are a pest, a fascination, a threat, a pot of gold. What they are not is predictable. Eels emerged some 200 million years ago, weathered mass extinctions and continental shifts, and were once among the world's most abundant freshwater fish. But since the 1970s, their numbers have plummeted. Because eels--as unagi--are another thing: delicious. ..."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781419765858
ISBN: 141976585X
Physical Description: 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Abrams Press, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue : monsters in the pond -- Introducton : love's arrow -- The eels of Maine -- The kingpin -- Nuns of the water -- Freud's eel encounter -- Oh, what a lucky man -- Tales from the uncanny -- Don't call him Ahab -- Shapeshifters -- Animal magnetism, or snorkeling with eels -- Dr. Eel and the lovely maidens -- The night mind of water -- The river is full of money -- A most slippery business -- Tribal matters -- Closing the circle -- Epilogue : this incomprehensible world.