The Book of Eels Cultural & Ethnic Studies with a new and invaluable

with a new and invaluable introduction and explanatory notes

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The Book of Eels Cultural & Ethnic Studies with a new and invaluablePart H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish the eel and a reflection on the human condition Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the "eel question" Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of