Eels - An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish (Paperback)

"This is a delightful work with the urgency of a good detective story." --Thomas McGuane

"I loved it! A beautiful adventure story of one of the most wide-spread and least-known but ecologically important fish." --Bernd Heinrich, author of Summer World

Famous for his deeply informed, compulsively readable books on trout, writer-painter James Prosek (whom the New York Times has called "the Audubon of the fishing world") takes on nature's quirkiest and most enigmatic fish: the eel. Fans of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and The Big Oyster or Trevor Corson's The Secret Life of Lobsters will love Prosek's probing exploration of the hidden deep-water dwellers. With characteristically captivating prose and lavish illustrations, Prosek demystifies the eel's unique biology and bizarre mating routines, and illuminates the animal's varied roles in the folklore, cuisine, and commerce of a variety of cultures.

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 | Review by: Tanya K.

This is a cultural history of eels (i.e. which traditional culture eats them and which culture worships them) as opposed to a more scientific book. This book contained very little scientific information on the eel - no biological illustrations or information - and far too much irrelevant and fluffy autobiographical chit chat from the author. While the mythology surrounding the eel is entertaining, I was hoping for more on the life cycle of the only known fish which hatches in the ocean, lives in lakes and then travels back to the ocean to breed.

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