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Slippery beast : a true crime natural history, with eels /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shell, Ellen Ruppel, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Abrams Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Eels.
Eel fisheries.
Eels > History.
Elvers.
Anguilles > Histoire.
Anguilles.
Civelles.
Anguilles > Pêche commerciale.
Informational works.
Documents d'information.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • This river is full of money
  • A most slippery business
  • Tribal matters
  • Closing the circle
  • Epilogue: This incomprehensible world.