- Natural Science, Biology, Marine Biology, Freshwater biology
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?
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Contemplative, earnest, grave and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Patrik Svensson, Alex Wyndham
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Harpercollins, Blackstone Pub, Ecco Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781094156286
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“This is how the birth of the eel comes about: it takes place in a region of the northwest Atlantic Ocean called the Sargasso Sea, a place that is in every respect suitable for the creation of eels.”
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