Slippery Beast (Hardcover)

Ellen Ruppel Shell

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Abrams, New York, 2024

141976585X / 9781419765858

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Hardcover. A fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creaturethe eelmixing true crime, natural history, travel, and big business Ellen Ruppel Shells Slippery Beast is a fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creaturethe eela thrilling saga of true crime, natural history, travel, and big business. 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 worlds most abundant freshwater fish. But since the 1970s their numbers have plummeted. Because eelsas unagiare another thing: delicious. In Slippery Beast, journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell travels in the world of eel people, pursuing a burgeoning fascination with this mysterious and highly coveted creature. Despite centuries of study by celebrated thinkers from Aristotle to Leeuwenhoek to a young Sigmund Freud, much about eels remains unknown, including exactly how eels beget other eels. Eels cannot be bred reliably in captivity, and as a result, infant eels are unbelievably valuable. A pound of the tiny, translucent, bug-eyed elvers caught in the cold fresh waters of Maine can command $3,000 or more on the black market. Illegal trade in eels is an international scandal measured in billions of dollars every year. In Maine, federal investigators have risked their lives to bust poaching rings, including the notorious half-decade-long Operation Broken Glass. Ruppel Shell follows the elusive eel from Maine to the Sargasso Sea and back, stalking riversides, fishing holes, laboratories, restaurants, courtrooms, and Americas first commercial eel family farm, which just might upend the international market and save a state. This is an enthralling, globe-spanning look at an animal that you may never come to love, but which will never fail to astonish you, a miraculous creature that tells us more about us than we can ever know about it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Slippery Beast (Hardcover)
Autore
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Editore
Abrams, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
141976585X
ISBN 13
9781419765858

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