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UNINA9910813590103321 |
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Autore |
Schweid Richard <1946-> |
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Titolo |
Consider the eel / / Richard Schweid |
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Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908734-3-9 |
0-8078-9926-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anguillidae |
Eel fisheries - North America |
Eel fisheries - Europe |
Eel fisheries |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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