Consider the eel / Richard Schweid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweid, Richard, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anguillidae.

Eel fisheries--North America.

Eel fisheries.

Eel fisheries--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. ""The eeler who explained the animal's life cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just taken from a trap, killed, cleaned, and cooked in olive oil in an earthenware dish,"" writes Schweid. ""I ate it with a chunk of fresh, crusty bread. It was delicious. I was immediately fascinated."" As this engaging culinary and natural history reveals, the humble eel is indeed an amazing creature. Every European and American eel begins i

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Pamlico County, North Carolina; 2 Interstate 95; 3 Guipúzcoa, Basque Country, Spain; 4 Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland; 5 Yankee Eels; 6 Fishing and Farming; A Taste of Eel; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908734-3-9

0-8078-9926-7

OCLC:

676697200