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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy meAmazing !!!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Seen by many people as slimy and nasty, this book will make you understand them better, if not an eel fancier.By lyndonbrechtAn informative book about a creature that most Americans seem to regard as slimy and nasty. We have forgotten that were once common fare for our colonial ancestors, until many thousands of dams (for mills and other purposes) blocked migration. This book is excellently illustrated.The book covers only American and European eels (there aren't many books on eels, so I have no knowledge about Pacific eels). Schweid brings in natural history but perhaps more, the and subject in literature and art (think of those Dutch still lifes featuring and fish), and in culture. That may seem like a joke, the eel in culture, but read the book and you'll see it perhaps more seriously.Eels seem to be in trouble. They are in some ways still a bit mysterious. Readers with some background may remember that for a very long time no one knew where eels went when they migrated out to sea. One issue I was unaware of is the sale of glass eels (baby eels coming into fresh water) to Chinese eel farms. Eels have not been successfully raised from eggs.

When pulled from the mud of creeks, ponds, rivers, or the sea, the eel, with its slick, snake-like body, emerges as an extremely mundane and even unappealing fish. But don’t let the appearance fool you—the eel has been one of the world’s favorite foods since ancient Greece, and the eel’s life cycle is one of the most remarkable on the planet—during the middle ages, impoverished Londoners survived on eel and the eel later saved the Mayflower pilgrims from starvation on American shores. In Eel, RichardSchweid chronicles the many facets of these slippery creatures from their natural history to their market value and contemporary consumption to their appearance in art and literature and finally to their present threatened status. So far, eels have steadfastly refused to reproduce in captivity, apparently requiring the vastness of the open to successfully mature—which has imperiled the species’ long- term survival. Schweid explains that freshwater eels are born in remote ocean depths and make a journey of thousands of miles to fresh water where they spend most of their lives before making a return journey to the ocean to mate and die. Well-illustrated and containing many little-known facts about this surprising fish, Eel will appeal to general readers of natural history and others wishing to discover something more about the common on the menu.

"Where Schweid excels in in his wonderfully illustrated historical account of the use that man has made of the eel, a story that extends from prehistory . . . to the gross abuse of the eel resource at the hand of global markets and intensive aquaculture. Eel is a book to be enjoyed and often reread, a social history of real substance which echoes the best of Victorian writing." –Times Literary Supplement

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