Part memoir of the author’s relationship with his father and part natural and cultural history of the world’s most mysterious fish. No human has ever seen eels reproduce and we don’t understand why every member of the species breeds and dies in the Sargasso Sea, or indeed why the creature is on the verge of extinction. The book follows the eel through literature, history and marine biology to tell a story of life, loss and obsession.
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World’s Most Enigmatic Fish
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Edition:Hardback978152903068620/08/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more
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Lost Cat: A Memoir
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MH has spent the last twelve years designing and tending a beautiful 12-acre garden - not his own, but the property of an elderly widow. More rough greenman than elegant plantsman, his accou... read more
Seed to Dust: A Gardener’s Story
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The fascinating story of a language known as 'Rotwelsch', associated with vagabonds - linked to Yiddish and Romani - that the author learned from his father and uncle. His grandfather, a Naz... read more