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

"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:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Abrams Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Eels > History. Eels. Anguilles > Histoire. Anguilles. Environmental Conservation & Protection. NATURE. Agriculture & Food Policy) SOCIAL SCIENCE. Animals. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Prologue : monsters in the pond
Introducton : love's arrow
Chapter 1. The eels of Maine
Chapter 2. The kingpin
Chapter 3. Nuns of the water
Chapter 4. Freud's eel encounter
Chapter 5. Oh, what a lucky man
Chapter 6. Tales from the uncanny
Chapter 7. Don't call him Ahab
Chapter 8. Shapeshifters
Chapter 9. Animal magnetism, or snorkeling with eels
Chapter 10. Dr. Eel and the lovely maidens
Chapter 11. The night mind of water
Chapter 12. The river is full of money
Chapter 13. A most slippery business
Chapter 14. Tribal matters
Chapter 15. Closing the circle
Epilogue : this incomprehensible world
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of searchable terms.