Nature

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 ...

In Eel, Richard Sweid chronicles all aspects of eels: from their natural history to their market value; their occurence in art and literature and their present threatened status.

“Eels [is] more than a fish book. It is an impassioned defense of nature itself. . . . [Prosek] passes on the truth that the often disdained eel, like all migratory fish, is vital and mysterious and worthy of our full ...