Can I read The Book of Eels : Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World on EtoBox?

The Book of Eels : Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson; Recorded Books, Inc is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Book of Eels : Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World about?

A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize National Bestseller Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book One of TIME’s 100 Must Read Books of the Year One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year One of Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year  One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year A New York Times Editor’s Choice Part 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 creature altogether? Even today, in an age of advanced science, no one has ever seen eels mating or giving birth, and we still don’t understand what drives them, after living for decades in freshwater, to swim great distances back to the ocean at the end of their

Who reads The Book of Eels : Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World?

Author

Patrik Svensson; Recorded Books, Inc

Publisher

Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062968814

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Nature, Marine & Aquatic Life

Rating

4.5 / 5 (1,225 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14