Title:
Slippery beast : a true crime natural history, with eels
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : Abrams Press, [2024]
2024
Physical Description:
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781419765858
Abstract:
"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.
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- The river is full of money -- A most slippery business -- Tribal matters -- Closing the circle -- Epilogue : this incomprehensible world.
Genre:
Language:
English
